Flavius Josephus

"s:The Life of Flavius Josephus, Vita, an autobiography."

"s:Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades, an short essay on the Jewish Pharisees' view of the afterlife."

"Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises."

"Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing els…"

"Now Antiochus was not satisfied either with his unexpected taking the city , or with its pillage, or with the great slaughter he had made there; but being overcome with his violent passions, and remem…"

"And when the book of Daniel was showed him wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended."

"s:The War of the Jews, De Bello Judaico, which he says was a translation of an earlier version written in Chaldaic Hebrew."

"I protest openly that I do not go over to the Romans as a deserter of the Jews, but as a minister from thee."