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Reading the book of Luke might make us ask, \u201cwho are some other historians of Bible times?\u201d\u00a0 Admittedly, I usually hop right into study notes in my Bibles or myriad other commentaries like we find on Biblehub.com. But sometimes, I want to have the report from someone who was there<\/em>.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I go to the writings of Josephus.\u00a0 He actually has a full name, but you can always search him by Josephus.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born in Jerusalem just after Jesus was crucified and died in 100 AD.\u00a0 So, he was actually he there!\u00a0 He must have grown up listening to the adults in his life telling of the amazing things that Jesus did. He lived as the church was being established and growing.\u00a0 Josephus wrote a lot about the Jewish revolt and the destruction of the temple in AD 70.\u00a0 Other historians of the time were Philo and Tacitus – and several others – but these three will get you started if you love history.\u00a0 These guys won\u2019t encourage you in your faith necessarily, but they wrote much about what the world was like when the New Testament was being written and add a great deal of texture to our knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading the book of Luke might make us ask, \u201cwho are some other historians of Bible times?\u201d\u00a0 Admittedly, I usually hop right into study notes in my Bibles or myriad other commentaries like we find on Biblehub.com. But sometimes, I want to have the report from someone who was there.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"book-of-the-bible":[],"book-chapter":[],"season-one-episode":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","featured-blog":"","genesis-singular-images":"","singular-full-width":"","rpwe-thumbnail":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"

Reading the book of Luke might make us ask, \u201cwho are some other historians of Bible times?\u201d\u00a0 Admittedly, I usually hop right into study notes in my Bibles or myriad other commentaries like we find on Biblehub.com. But sometimes, I want to have the report from someone who was there.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I go to the writings of Josephus.\u00a0 He actually has a full name, but you can always search him by Josephus.\u00a0 He was born in Jerusalem just after Jesus was crucified and died in 100 AD.\u00a0 So, he was actually he there!\u00a0 He must have grown up listening…<\/p>\n","category_list":"Blog<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Joy","url":"https:\/\/liftinghervoice.com\/author\/joylm\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","featured-blog":"","genesis-singular-images":"","singular-full-width":"","rpwe-thumbnail":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

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