He betrayed his own people. He dined with the emperors who destroyed Jerusalem. And he wrote the only historical evidence of Jesus outside the Bible.
Flavius Josephus or Yosef ben Matityahu was a priest, general, prisoner, and historian. He survived a lottery of death, prophesied that Vespasian would become emperor, and documented the destruction of the Temple in AD 70 as an eyewitness.
Without him, we would know almost nothing about Masada, Herod, the Pharisees, the Essenes, or the world in which Jesus lived.
In this documentary, you will learn the complete story of the most controversial man in ancient Jewish history and understand why his writings still provoke intense debate two thousand years later.
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