Antiquities of the Jews

Antiquities of the Jews

11th-century illuminated manuscript
Author	Flavius Josephus
Original title	Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία
Translator	Thomas Lodge William Whiston Henry St. John Thackeray Ralph Marcus
Country	Roman Empire
Language	Koine Greek
Subject	Jewish history
Genre	historiography
Published	93/94 AD
Published in English	1602
Media type	Manuscript
Dewey Decimal	296.093
LC Class	DS116.J7418
Original text	Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία at Greek Wikisource
Translation	Antiquities of the Jews at Wikisource

Antiquities of the Jews (Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae; Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Domitian, which was 94 CE.^[1] The book contains an account of the history of the Jewish people for Josephus's gentile patrons. In the first ten volumes, Josephus follows the events of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve.

The second ten volumes continues the history of the Jewish people beyond the biblical text and up to the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE). This work, along with Josephus's other major work, The Jewish War (De Bello Iudaico), provides valuable background material for historians wishing to understand 1st-century CE Judaism and the early Christian period.^[2]