itle: The Antiquities of the Jews

Author: Flavius Josephus

Translator: William Whiston

Posting Date: January 4, 2009

Release Date: October, 2001

Language: English

THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS

Flavius Josephus

Translated by William Whiston

PREFACE.

1. Those who undertake to write histories, do not, I perceive, take that

trouble on one and the same account, but for many reasons, and those

such as are very different one from another. For some of them apply

themselves to this part of learning to show their skill in composition,