Josephus - A Unique Witness

JOSEPHUS: a unique witness
By David Bentley-Taylor
Christian Focus. 143 pages
ISBN 185792499 1

Flavius Josephus was a first-century Jew who sided with Rome and spent the last period of his life writing history.

David Bentley-Taylor has done an excellent job in reviewing the works of Josephus and particularly bringing to our attention the points at which Josephus's account touches on the background to the NT and incidents we find there. He relates the lives of the Herods, the destruction of Jerusalem and gives information about places and customs we know from our Bibles. There is a most helpful Scripture index as well as a subject index.

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Main Articles

• Underground gospel
  The Underground Youth Lounge is a small, self-contained, shoebox-type room in the basement of Highfields Free Church in Cardiff
• Defining evangelicals
  A challenge to the fuzziness of what is meant by evangelical
• Crossing the desert
  The conclusion of an interview with Jonathan Aitken - the former Conservative minister who was sent to prison (Part 2)
• Can Christians forgive?
  Sue Sainsbury asks radical questions about forgiving each other in daily life
• The church prayer meeting
  Jonathan Fletcher explains how he encourages interest in the prayer meeting at his church
• Flying to Christ
  The wartime story of Joe Pilkington in a Liberator bomber
• After freedom
  A report on the church in Leipzig in Germany since the Berlin wall came down
• Monthly column on the arts
  David Porter describes the good, the bad and the ugly at Tate Modern
• Monthly column for youth leaders: Game on
  Games for summer to help your group have a good time and build relationships
• Monthly column on hymns and songs
  Discovering and appreciating hidden treasure in holiday church hymns
• 2,000 years of Jewish evangelism
  John Ross of Christian Witness to Israel recounts two millennia of evangelism

Other articles

• Multiplying Churches - An extract on church planting in South Africa
• Chicken Run - Film review
• The Music of St Paul's Cathedral - CD review
• Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
• And Some . . . Evangelists
• Churchgoing for Amateurs
• Proverbs - Everyday Wisdom for Everyone
• Who Are The Puritans And What Do They Teach?
• Gideon - Power from Weakness
• A Time To Jump - The Authorised Biography of Jonathan Edwards
• We Brake For Joy!
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