The Antiquities of the Jews

What it's about

A history of the Jewish people in twenty books, from the creation through the patriarchs, kings and exile to the eve of the revolt against Rome. Written in Greek for a Roman audience, it is one of the main outside sources for the world of the New Testament.

Who it's for

- Bible readers who want the history around the scriptures - Anyone interested in the ancient Near East and Roman Judea - Students of how a people tells its own story to an empire

What’s inside

1. Book I
   CHAPTER 1. The Constitution Of The World And The Disposition Of The Elements.

   7 min
2. CHAPTER 2. Concerning The Posterity Of Adam, And The Ten Generations From Him To The Deluge.

   5 min
3. CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Flood; And After What Manner Noah Was Saved In An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards Dwelt In The Plain Of Shinar.

   10 min
4. CHAPTER 4. Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And The Confusion Of Tongues.

   3 min
5. CHAPTER 5. After What Manner The Posterity Of Noah Sent Out Colonies, And Inhabited The Whole Earth.

   1 min
6. CHAPTER 6. How Every Nation Was Denominated From Their First Inhabitants.

   8 min
7. CHAPTER 7. How Abram Our Forefather Went Out Of The Land Of The Chaldeans, And Lived In The Land Then Called Canaan But Now Judea.

   2 min
8. CHAPTER 8. That When There Was A Famine In Canaan, Abram Went Thence Into Egypt; And After He Had Continued There A While He Returned Back Again.

   3 min
9. CHAPTER 9. The Destruction Of The Sodomites By The Assyrian War.

   1 min
10. CHAPTER 10. How Abram Fought With The Assyrians, And Overcame Them, And Saved The Sodomite Prisoners, And Took From The Assyrians The Prey They Had Gotten.

    5 min
11. CHAPTER 11. How God Overthrew The Nation Of The Sodomites, Out Of His Wrath Against Them For Their Sins.

    4 min
12. CHAPTER 12. Concerning Abimelech; And Concerning Ismael The Son Of Abraham; And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His Posterity.

    5 min
13. CHAPTER 13. Concerning Isaac The Legitimate Son Of Abraham.

    5 min
14. CHAPTER 14. Concerning Sarah Abraham's Wife; And How She Ended Her Days.

    1 min
15. CHAPTER 15. How The Nation Of The Troglodytes Were Derived From Abraham By Keturah.

    1 min
16. CHAPTER 16. How Isaac Took Rebeka To Wife.

    5 min
17. CHAPTER 17. Concerning The Death Of Abraham.

    1 min
18. CHAPTER 18. Concerning The Sons Of Isaac, Esau And Jacob; Of Their Nativity And Education.

    6 min
19. CHAPTER 19. Concerning Jacob's Flight Into Mesopotamia, By Reason Of The Fear He Was In Of His Brother.

    14 min
20. CHAPTER 20. Concerning The Meeting Of Jacob And Esau.

    4 min
21. CHAPTER 21. Concerning The Violation Of Dina's Chastity.

    2 min
22. CHAPTER 22. How Isaac Died, And Was Buried In Hebron.

    18 min
23. Book II
    CHAPTER 1. How Esau And Jacob, Isaac's Sons Divided Their Habitation; And Esau Possessed Idumea And Jacob Canaan.

    2 min
24. CHAPTER 2. How Joseph, The Youngest Of Jacob's Sons, Was Envied By His Brethren, When Certain Dreams Had Foreshown His Future Happiness.

    4 min

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