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Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 128 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 142 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 161 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 213 (search)
Now that some writers have omitted to mention our nation, not because
they knew nothing of us, but because they envied us, or for some other
unjustifiable reasons, I think I can demonstrate by particular instances;
for Hieronymus, who wrote the History of [Alexander's Successors, lived
at the same time with Hecateus, and was a friend of king Antigonus, and
president of Syria. Now it is plain that Hecateus wrote an entire book
concerning us, while Hieronymus never mentions us in his history, although
he was bred up very near to the places where we live. Thus different from
one another are the inclinations of men; while the one thought we deserved
to be carefully remembered, as some ill-disposed passion blinded the other's
mind so entirely, that he could not discern the truth. And now certainly
the foregoing records of the Egyptians, and Chaldeans, and Phoenicians,
together with so many of the Greek writers, will be sufficient for the
demonstration of our antiquity. Moreover, besides th
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 251 (search)
This is what the Egyptians relate about the Jews, with much more,
which I omit for the sake of brevity. But still Manetho goes on, that "after
this, Amenophis returned back from Ethiopia with a great army, as did his
son Ahampses with another army also, and that both of them joined battle
with the shepherds and the polluted people, and beat them, and slew a great
many of them, and pursued them to the bounds of Syria." These and
the like accounts are written by Manetho. But I will demonstrate that he
trifles, and tells arrant lies, after I have made a distinction which will
relate to what I am going to say about him; for this Manetho had granted
and confessed that this nation was not originally Egyptian, but that they
had come from another country, and subdued Egypt, and then went away again
out of it. But that. those Egyptians who were thus diseased in their bodies
were not mingled with us afterward, and that Moses who brought the people
out was not one of that company, but lived many
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 254 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 267 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 288 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK I, section 293 (search)
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.), BOOK II, section 33 (search)
But let us now see what those heavy and wicked crimes are which Apion
charges upon the Alexandrian Jews. "They came (says he) out of Syria,
and inhabited near the tempestuous sea, and were in the neighborhood of
the dashing of the waves." Now if the place of habitation includes
any thing that is reproached, this man reproaches not his own real country,
[Egypt,] but what he pretends to be his own country, Alexandria; for all
are agreed in this, that the part of that city which is near the sea is
the best part of all for habitation. Now if the Jews gained that part of
the city by force, and have kept it hitherto without impeachment, this
is a mark of their valor; but in reality it was Alexander himself that
gave them that place for their habitation, when they obtained equal privileges
there with the Macedonians. Nor call I devise what Apion would have said,
had their habitation been at Necropolis? and not been fixed hard by the
royal palace [as it is]; nor had their nation had the denom