Josephus

traditions ongoing. To the Jews, Alexandria was not a place of dreadfulness nor despair, it was a land of opportunity, “not a few Jews came to Egypt of their own accord, for they were attracted by the excellence of the country and Ptolemy’s liberal ways” (Josephus, Antiquities 12.9). Jews in Alexandria were as much of a part of the community as anyone else. In fact, there was a wide scope of economic opportunities available to them, as anyone else in Alexandria. Consequentially, Jews in…

This modules essay is a very intriguing and inspiring segment of the text. The religions that inspired this essay include Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and Christianity. The elements that will be discussed in detail will include a look at the common grounds that each religion might share, some similarities that may exist between the three faiths, an inspection of their distinctions, and uniqueness of each religious practice. Now that we have distinguished each topic that will be explicated on,…

The New Testament makes more than 70 references to sexuality, which is twice as many references as murder and theft combined. This emphasis on sex has not been forgotten in 21st century Christian culture. On the contrary. Family Christian, LLC, the largest Christian retailer in the world, sells over 500 books on the topic of Christian sexuality. Within the category of biblical sexuality, three main subcategories can be identified: (1) extramarital sex and sex within marriage, (2) homosexuality,…

The conflict between the Christians and the Jesus Seminar has been an ongoing struggle since 1985. The Jesus Seminar, founded by Robert Funk, originated in 1985 as around 70 biblical scholars set out to determine the legitimacy of Jesus’ sayings (Dart). The Seminar focused on the historicity of Jesus using the best methods of science and literary criticism as it pertains to the Bible. Funk believed that the gospel writers had made Jesus into a “larger than life” figure in order to satisfy their…

survival, was the fact that Egypt provided a source of grain. Tacitus argues due to Egypt’s position on the sea that even a small force could take the province and starve Rome to surrender. This is further evidenced by the Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus who writes that Egypt regularly sent four months’ worth of corn to Rome. Clearly, an ambitious or seditious senator interrupting this supply would wreak havoc on Rome. Thus, if Augustus did not trust senators it made logical sense to employ…

N.T. Wright’s book, The Challenge of Jesus, drew my attention to three very interesting and important concepts. The first, discussing the importance of relating to Jesus in Jesus’s time. Especially when it comes to the use of figurative language, expression, cultural and societal norms of the time, as well as getting to know how exactly it was that people understood God and the arrival of the Messiah, for first century Jews. The second thing that really got me thinking, when reading the book,…

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her entirely without allowing anyone or herself have authority over her choices. Mariam starts the play with a speech which explains how Herod demands that Mariam be dead if he ever dies, “My death to his had been unseparate”(1,1,50). Although, Josephus, who was sent to kill Mariam, is now dead. This means that she can not die any more since no one is present to achieve the deed. Mariam is now free from her sentence to death since Herod is gone but she is angered at the fact that he wanted this…

explanation for the large family size is the high rates of infant mortality (see Graph G.), since many children would be hard pressed to survive to their fifth birthday, much less marry. Indeed, the commonalty of the names Tobias, Johannes, and Josephus for men and Anna Maria and Catharina…

boy, someone not much younger than I am now, dead and hanging from a tree. The plaque below the picture read that Michael Donald, a young Black man, was attacked and hung from a tree by two KKK members who were angry about “a jury’s acquittal of Josephus Anderson, a Black man accused of murdering a White police officer” (THEM: Images of…