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A:Josephus was a priest in Jerusalem, then the Jewish military commander of Galilee at the start of the First Roman-Jewish War. He defected to the Romans and prophesied that the Roman commander would become the emperor of Rome. When this really did happen a few years later, Josephus was adopted into the royal family and began his career as a historian. His most important work was Antiquities of the Jews, published in 93 CE.

Josephus is not mentioned in Luke's Gospel nor in Acts of the Apostles. However it has been convincingly demonstrated that some of the material in Acts is based on Antiquities. It is also probable that some material in Luke was based on the works of Josephus, particularly Antiquities, but conclusive proof has not yet been established in the way that it has been for Acts.

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