Jews around the world sit down at their Passover table and retell the story of the exodus from Egypt. To tell stories and ...

extensive history of the Jewish people ... from Biblical days coming down to his own time. Josephus wrote mostly at the end of the first century ... around the year 100, just a few years before ...

even on the Jewish side. Because it is the second century of our era that marks the emergence for the first time into the light of history of a new group and a new culture and a new literature and ...