The Works of Flavious Josephus (4 Volume Set Complete)
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v.1. The wars of the Jews. Josephus and Masada / by C.F. Pfeiffer -- v.2. The life of Flavius Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews I-VIII -- v.3. Antiquties of the Jews books IX-XVII -- v.4. Antiquities of the Jews books XVIII-XX. Flavius Josephus against Apion. Concerning Hades. Appendix. Index.
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You want to go deeper, understand, and immerse yourself in the Jewish history, culture, and community of Jesus. Let Josephus: The Complete Works open your eyes. Flavius Josephusfirst-century Pharisee, Jewish historian, Roman consultant, and writer, documented aspects of life during the time of Christ, giving us extensive writings on ancient Jewish history in existence. By studying Josephus works, readers gain a behind-the-scenes look at biblical figures including Abraham, Moses, John the Baptist, and James the brother of Jesus, plus insights into the Dead Sea Scrolls community, Sadducees and Pharisees, the War of the Jews, and beyond.
Features include:
• The War of the Jewsan account of the Jewish revolt against Rome up to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem
• The Antiquities of the Jewsa history of the Jews from Creation to the Roman occupation of Palestine
• The Life of Flavius Josephusthe autobiography of Josephus, who fought against Rome and later served the empire
• Against Apiona defense of the origin of Judaism in the face of Greco-Roman slanders
• Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hadesa text Whiston attributed to Josephus
• Index of parallels between Josephuss Antiquities and the Old Testament including the Apocrypha
About Flavius Josephus
Josephus was a first-century Pharisee, soldier, informant to the Romans, and writer. He left behind the most extensive writings on ancient Jewish history still in existence.
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Enhance the effectiveness of your scripture study---make the Bible come alive with the sights and sounds of first-century Palestine as recorded by famed historian Josephus. You'll change the way you relate to the stories and figures in the New Testament as you meet John the Baptist, Pontius Pilate, the Sanhedrin and, most importantly, Jesus himself in an entirely new context. A comprehensive look at Jewish history from the Creation through the First Jewish-Roman War, this book belongs right next to the Bible on every serious student or scholar's shelf.
The Works of Flavius Josephus, The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior to Which are Added Three Dissertations Complete in One Volume
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Catena Aurea (Golden Chain), Volume 1: Gospel of Matthew
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Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the "Doctor Angelicus" and "Doctor Communis". He is heralded as the most influential Western medieval legal scholar and theologist. "Aquinas" is from the county of Aquino, an area where his family held land until 1137. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived in development or opposition of his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Unlike many currents in the Church of the time, Thomas embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle whom he referred to as "the Philosopher" and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity. The works for which he is best known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa contra Gentiles. His commentaries on Sacred Scripture and on Aristotle are an important part of his body of work. Furthermore, Thomas is distinguished for his eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church's liturgy. Thomas is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church and is held to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood, and indeed the highest expression of both natural reason and speculative theology. In modern times, under papal directives, the study of his works was long used as a core of the required program of study for those seeking ordination as priests or deacons, as well as for those in religious formation and for other students of the sacred disciplines (philosophy, Catholic theology, church history, liturgy, canon law).
Primitive Christianity Reviv'd, Vol. 5: Containing the Recognition of Clement, or the Travels of Peter, in Ten Books (Classic Reprint)
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William Whiston was an English theologian, historian, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton.
Background
He was born on the 9th of December 1667 at Norton in Leicestershire, of which village his father was rector.
Whiston’s father, Josiah Whiston, who was also his first teacher, was a pastor.
Newton did nothing at all to help him, even though he himself was secretly anti-Trinitarian.
Education
He was educated privately, partly on account of the delicacy of his health, and partly that he might act as amanuensis to his father, who had lost his sight.
He afterwards entered at Clare College, Cambridge, where he applied himself to mathematical study, and obtained a fellowship in 1693.
His heterodoxy soon became notorious, and in 1710 he was deprived of his professorship and expelled from the university.
Career
Whiston moved to London, where he led a bohemian life, while continuing to occupy himself with literature and theology.
Whiston’s scientific writings include several mathematical treatises, notably a Latin edition of Euclid (Cambridge, 1703), and Praelectiones astronomicae (1707).
His most important work is A New Theory of the Earth, From Its Original to the Consummation of All Things.
Wherein the Creation of the World in Six Days, the Universal Deluge, and the General Conflagration, as Laid Down in the Holy Scriptures, Are Shewn to be Perfectly Agreeable to Reason and Philosophy (London, 1696), which went through six editions, an indication of considerable success.
It was dedicated to Newton, and its goal was to redo, with the aid of Newtonian cosmology, what Burnet had done with the aid of Descartes in Telluris theoria sacra (London, 1681).
In its ninety-four separately numbered pages he set forth the principles of a very free interpretation of Genesis.
Again like Burnet, Whiston thought that Moses, whose audience consisted of illiterate Jews, was not able to give a scientific account of the formation of the earth.
Seeking to give his arguments a geometric rigor, Whiston presented the theory itself in four books entitled Lenmatata, Hypotheses, Phaenomena, and Solutions.
According to the theory, the earth was originally a comet, revolving around the sun in a very eccentric orbit.
This is the situation commonly described by the term “chaos. ”
Then one day God decided to make the earth a planet, and the chaos vanished; this is the transformation recounted in Genesis.
From this time and until the Flood, the earth revolved around the sun in a perfectly circular orbit; the axis of its poles was perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, and there were no seasons and no daily rotation.
The oblique impact of the comet displaced the axis of the poles, transformed the circular orbit into an ellipse, and imparted to the earth its rotational movement.
Whiston’s view was that God intervenes both directly (for example, in the creation of man) and through the intermediary of physical agents (such as a comet).
Whiston explicitly stated that these two modes ultimately amount to the same thing.
The ideas expressed on this point in A New Theory of the Earth were taken up again and made more precise in Astronomical Principles of Religion Natural and Reveal’d, which Whiston published in London in 1717.
His thinking was similar to that of Richard Bentley and Samuel Clarke but displayed less precision and clarity.
As in the case of Burnet, from whom he took a great deal, his writing were much disputed but also widely read, throughout the entire eighteenth century, and not just in England.
For example, Buffon, who summarized Whiston’s theory in order to ridicule it, borrowed more from him than he was willing to admit and thus unconsciously promoted the spread of his ideas.
It may be said that all the cosmogonies based on the impact of celestial bodies, including that of Jeans, owed something, directly or indirectly, to whiston’s inventions.
He retired to the home of his daughter in Lyndon, where he died in 1752.
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Religion
He assailed the memory of Athanasius with a virulence at least equal to that with which orthodox divines had treated Arius.
About the same time (1747) he finally left the Anglican communion for the Baptist, leaving the church literally as well as figuratively by quitting it as the clergyman began to read the Athanasian creed.
Views
His dislike to rationalism in religion also made him one of the numerous opponents of Benjamin Hoadly's Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament.
He was not only paradoxical to the verge of craziness, but intolerant to the verge of bigotry.
Personality
When not engaged in controversy he was not devoid of good sense.
Connections
Whiston married Ruth, daughter of George Antrobus, his headmaster at Tamworth school. He had a happy family life and died in Lyndon Hall, Rutland, at the home of his son-in-law, Samuel Barker, on 22 August 1752. He was survived by his children Sarah, William, George, and John.