{"slug": "josephus", "label": "Josephus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134461", "qid": "Q134461", "description": "Roman–Jewish historian and military leader (c. 37–c. 100)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [6, 100], "span_label": ["6 CE", "100 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jews", "label": "Jews", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "galilee", "label": "Galilee", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tiberius", "label": "Tiberius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syria-roman-province", "label": "Syria (Roman province)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 6, "year_label": "6 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "AD 6 – Quirinius conducts a census in Judea (according to Josephus), which results in a revolt in the province, led by Judas of Galilee, and supported by the Pharisee Zadok. The revolt is repressed, and the rebels are crucified, but it results in the birth of the Zealot movement, the members of which regard the God of Judaism as their only master.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 36, "year_label": "36 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Herod Antipas suffers major losses in a war with Aretas IV of Nabatea, provoked partly by Antipas' divorce of Aretas' daughter. According to Josephus, Herod's defeat was popularly believed to be divine punishment for his execution of John the Baptist. Emperor Tiberius orders his governor of Syria, Vitellius, to capture or kill Aretas, but he is reluctant to support Herod and abandons his campaign upon Tiberius' death in AD 37.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 36 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 37, "year_label": "37 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Josephus, Romano-Jewish historian (d. c. 100 AD)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#37_AD", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Births › 37 AD"}}, {"year": 46, "year_label": "46 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "A large famine occurred across Syria, recorded by Orosius, Suetonius, Tacitus and Josephus, due to bad harvests.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_46", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 46"}}, {"year": 67, "year_label": "67 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Siege of Yodfat: Its 40,000 Jewish inhabitants are massacred. The historian Josephus, leader of the rebels in Galilee, is captured by the Romans. Vespasian is wounded in the foot by an arrow fired from the city wall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371185877#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 67", "revid": 1371185877, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 69, "year_label": "69 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Josephus, Jewish rebel leader, is dragged before Vespasian and becomes his historian (he \"prophesied\" him his elevation to the purple).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367882081#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 69", "revid": 1367882081, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 93, "year_label": "93 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Josephus completes his Jewish Antiquities (or in AD 94).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330324282#Literature", "title": "AD 93", "revid": 1330324282, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": 100, "year_label": "100 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Josephus, Jewish historian and writer (b. AD 37)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188492#Deaths", "title": "AD 100", "revid": 1371188492, "section": "Deaths"}}]}