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Iosephus či Josephus , původním jménem Josef ben Matitjahu , řecky Iosepos , byl židovský kněz, učenec a historik, který zanechal významné poznámky o První židovské válce v letech 66–70. Své jméno Flavius si Josef přibral podle rodového jména císaře Vespasiana. Wikipedia  

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“Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.”

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Flavius Josephus

Book 3.5.1, trans. William Whiston
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.”

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Flavius Josephus

Chap. 5, opening, trans. G. A. Williamson
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee.”

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Flavius Josephus

Book 3.8.3, trans. William Whiston
regarding his defection to the Roman Empire
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else.”

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Flavius Josephus

Closing words, trans. G. A. Williamson
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)

“And when the book of Daniel was showed him [Alexander the Great] wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended.”

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Flavius Josephus kniha Antiquities of the Jews

Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94 CE), Book 11.8.5, trans. William Whiston