At the map’s top is “Paradise,” nestled beside the river’s edge. Ancient historian Titus Flavius Josephus also backs up parts of Borisov’s vision.

Ancient historian Titus Flavius Josephus also supports elements of Borisov’s perspective in Antiquities of the Jews (Book 1, Chapter 1). AP ...

The researcher also noted that Titus Flavius Josephus, a Romano-Jewish scholar and historian, wrote in Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 3: "Now the garden was watered by one river, which ran ...

Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus’ wave curled to its crest.

Credit: Berthold Werner / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For this, they first had to depose the incumbent, Hananel, on the pretext that he was not a Jew by birth but a foreigner (Egyptian according ...

Josephus was then released and, from that point on, the man formerly known as Yosef ben Mattityah Romanized himself, adopting the name of his captors (Titus Flavius Josephus) and joining the legions ...

Titus then sent the other renegade Jew and Roman sycophant, the historian Josephus Flavius, to negotiate a truce with the Jewish commanders.

Josephus was a Jew who fought in the rebellion against Rome—and then saved his own life by joining them, and becoming an advisor and translator to Titus Vespasian, the general who conquered the ...

Jewish historian, military leader and Roman citizen, Titus Flavius Josephus, provides the most thorough history of the 1st century Roman Empire deals with the Jewish people. Born in Jerusalem during ...