Sources

Antiquities of the Jews

Citation Formats

General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Antiquities of the Jews." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/antiquities-of-the-jews.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Antiquities of the Jews. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/antiquities-of-the-jews

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-antiquities-of-the-jews,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Antiquities of the Jews},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/antiquities-of-the-jews},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Antiquities of the Jews is Flavius Josephus's own first-century primary history, cited here specifically on the destruction of the Gerizim temple, and this record states an honest scholarly limit rather than picking a false precision: Josephus's account and the numismatic archaeological evidence disagree by roughly two decades on the dating, and this atlas names that disagreement rather than resolving it in either direction. As a primary text it is authoritative for what Josephus himself reported, checkable against the text, not for whether his report is more accurate than the competing numismatic evidence, which is a live and unresolved question. Use it to establish Josephus's own account of this event; a claim resolving the dating dispute in either direction needs a dedicated source addressing the numismatic evidence directly.

Facts

Citation

Author

Flavius Josephus

Publisher

W. Bowyer (for the author)

This entry's own Gutenberg #2848 citation is William Whiston's 1737 English translation, The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, first printed in London by W. Bowyer, for the author, not the ancient text in the abstract.

Publication Year

1737

Year Whiston's translation was first published; its original publisher is not established, so Publisher is left unset.

URL

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2848

Source Type

primary-text

Assessment

Reliability Tier

Josephus's own first century primary history, cited here on the destruction of the Samaritan temple at Gerizim; the record states the roughly two decade disagreement between Josephus's account and the numismatic evidence rather than picking a single date.

Notes

On the destruction of the Gerizim temple. The entry names the roughly two-decade disagreement with the numismatic evidence rather than picking a date.

Claims Backed By This Source (67 claims)

This source backs 67 claims across the atlas. As facts: 33 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 27 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.