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“In Ant. 18.116–119, Josephus makes no mention of the setting of John’s mission, saying only that John was executed at Machaerus. Herod’s fortress-palace, the ruins of which still stand, was situated in Peraea. It was less than fourteen kilometres south east of the Jordan River and so it comes within the general area suggested by the”
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
“Josephus clearly regards the unnamed prophets as false. He compares them with the Sicarii, a splinter activist group who arose during Felix’s time. Josephus considers the false prophets to be more dangerous than these people. As”
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
“Josephus mentions a certain Jeshua, son of Ananias, who roamed the streets of Jerusalem and preached a message of doom against the Jewish aristocracy and the Temple (War 6.300-309).”
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
“Josephus’s practice of reducing prophecy to fortune-telling stems from his agreement with Pharisaic belief that prophecy was currently suspended, It is true, our history hath been written since Artaxerxes very particularly, but hath not since been esteemed of the like authority with the former of our forefathers, because there hath not been an exact succession on prophets since that time.(Apion 1.41).”
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
― John the Baptist: A Life and Death
