Judaism
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The Wars of the Jews
(Part 1: The Antiquities of the Jews) The second half of Josephus’s Complete Works gets to the real gritty parts of history. Antiquities is Israel’s historical record, but The Wars of the Jews is something completely different. There is some overlap at first. Wars was written first, so it’s not chronological. There are some mentions… Continue reading
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The Antiquities of the Jews
My “massive book” of this year has been The Complete Works of Josephus. Any reputable history of Israel or the Jewish people references something from Josephus, with some only known by his exhaustive attempts at a complete history. In typical bookworm challenge (and a little prideful “I can read that!”), I started this 1,184-page tome… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6