I’m currently reading the book of Josephus starting out in the biblical narrative of creation to the death of Isaac and was wondering if this is more reliable than the Bible or is he just giving me a historical perspective due to him writing about the Wars of the Jews
Seaside Roses
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josephus will be your historical authority, whereas the bible will be your spiritual authority.
antonius
Try reading Josephus's own works; The Jewish War also known as The War of the Jews. This one is very important in finding that Christianity, the NT and Jesus are all fiction. Josephus wrote the history of that war 66CE ~ 73CE, and much of it became comic parodies in the NT. Then there is Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus most certainly had a major role in writing the NT which is at least 99% total lies.
BMCR
Reliable regarding what?
The history of the Jews of his time period?
I would say for that, generally yes.
Though I have my doubts whether his portrayal of what happened at Masada was accurate.
J H
Josephus is very upright and reliable .
His autobiography is especially very
interesting. I consider him as a
believer in Christ.
Anonymous
He is pretty thorough and compared to his contemporaries' versions of the events, his are generally the more tame and likelier version.
His chronology of biblical history certainly used the Bible as a source, so he wouldn't be more reliable for that.
It's similar to how the Book of Chronicles (written c. 4th century BC) recaps everything that happened in the Bible thus far in about 10 chapters.