- Flavius Josephus is a Jewish historian born in AD 37

-Commanded the Jewish forces during the First Jewish Revolt

-He was captured but predicted that Vespasian, a Roman commander-in-chief, would be emperor and was spared

-wrote "The Jewish Wars" and a twenty volumes of Jewish history called "The Jewish Antiquities"

-tries to prove Jews were noble people

-philosophers believe Christians wrote some of his passages to support their beliefs

-not a follower of Jesus

-stated that followers of Jesus were in fact around in the end of the first

Josephus ( ca. AD 37-101)