By Flavius Josephus.
The Life and Works of Flavius Josephus.
By the learned and authentic Jewisch historian and celebrated warrior Flavius Josephus.
Translated by WILLIAM WISHTON, A. M. PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (1736)
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY THE REV. HENRY STEBBING, D.D.
Josephus was born into one of Jerusalem’s elite families. He was the second-born son of Matthias, a Jewish priestt. His older full-blooded brother was also, like his father, called Matthias.
Their mother was an aristocratic woman who was descended from the royal and formerly ruling Hasmonean dynasty.
Josephus’s paternal grandparents were a man also named Josephus and his wife—an unnamed Hebrew noblewoman—distant relatives of each other. Josephus’s family was wealthy.
He descended through his father from the priestly order of the Jehoiarib, which was the first of the 24 orders of priests in the Temple in Jerusalem. Josephus was a descendant of the High priest of Israel Jonathan Apphus. He was raised in Jerusalem and educated alongside his brother.
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