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Flavius Josephus
A first-century Jewish historian and military leader whose writings are a major surviving source on Jewish history and the Roman-Jewish wars.
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Flavius Josephus described the siege of Jerusalem in vivid detail in his historical works.
Scholars still rely on Flavius Josephus for information about first-century Judea unavailable elsewhere.
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Josephus originally led Jewish forces against Rome before surrendering and later writing under Roman patronage, which shapes how historians read his accounts.
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