Excerpt from Selections From Josephus Josephus, son of Matthias the priest, and on his mother's side claiming descent from the royal Hasmonaean house - or Flavius Josephus, to give him the name which he adopted out of gratitude to his Imperial patrons - was born in the first year of the Emperor Caligula, A.D. 37-38. St. Paul's conversion had probably taken place a few years earlier. His life of upwards of sixty years falls into two nearly equal parts, spent respectively in Palestine and in Rome. The Palestinian portion, again, is sharply divided into the pre-war period (to A.D.

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