• JesusLikesYourButt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I take issue with describing Josephus as a part of the ‘losing’ side. Josephus had defected and was working as an interpretor for Titus while Titus was conducting the seige on Jerusalem in 70 AD. He took on the Roman emperor’s family name, Flavius. He firmly sits on the ‘winning’ side, with the Romans.

    Plus later on Christian’s were the ones copying his books, not Jews, since he was viewed as a turncoat by his own people. So his books were preserved by the ‘winning’ side as well.

    Not saying he should be completely disregarded or written off as a historian, just that he wasn’t part of any ‘losing’ side of history.

    • mcmoor
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it is current winners, no matter how losing they were.