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Definition: Josephus |
JosephusNoun1. Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Josephus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Synonyms: JosephusSynonyms: Flavius Josephus (n), Joseph ben Matthias (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Josephus wrote an account of the war addressed to the Jewish community in Mesopotamia in Aramaic which is now lost. He then wrote a history in Greek covering a broader period - from the Maccabees to the fall of Jerusalem. This book, the Jewish War, appeared by 79. The majority of the book is based on the events of his own life, including those of his own administrative experience.
Jewish Antiquities, composed again for Greek readers, is a history of the Jews from the Creation to the outbreak of the war in the late 60s. At the end of the Antiquities is an autobiographical section in defense of Josephus's own conduct at the end of the war when he cooperated with the Roman forces of Vespasian.
Josephus's Against Apion is a defense of Judaism against classical religion and philosophy stressing the antiquity of Judaism and its scriptures against what Josephus pointed out was the relatively more recent traditions of the Greeks.
Jews have mixed feelings regarding Josephus. He was unquestionably an important apologist for the Jewish religion, particularly at a time of major upheaval, while his history of the Jewish Revolt, though sometimes questionable or self-serving, is an important source of information for the events at that time. Nevertheless, his personal conduct during the war is a point of contention because he abandoned his position as a rebel leader and joined the Roman camp.
See Josephus on Jesus.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Josephus."
Crosswords: Josephus |
| English words defined with "Josephus": Flavius Josephus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Josephus": Agrippa I. ♦ Felix ♦ Pharaoh's daughters ♦ Tyropoeon Valley. (references) |
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Screenplays | - Hey Josephus! (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Josephus Barth : Med. Dr. Consil et Opthalmiater Cäsaris, Anatomiae et Ophthalmiatricae... / Thomas Benedetti. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Daniel Ludwig / Josephus á Montalegre Sculp:. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Halftone photo spread from Our Navy at War by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during World War I. It features a portrait photograph of Lieutenant David S. Ingalls, the U.S. Navy's first aerial "ace" (right), and a view of Lieutenant George H. Ludlow seated in an Italian-built Macchi M.5 flying boat (left). Inset is a photograph of Ensign Charles H. Hammann, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing Ludlow on 21 August 1918. Credit: NAVY. |  | Standing in front the Navy Department's Main Navy Building, Washington, D.C., 27 December 1920, prior to a visit to Mrs. George Dewey. Standing in front center are (left to right): Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; Assistant Secretary Gordon Woodbury; and Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Chief of Naval Operations. The others are identified in Photo # NH 50445 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed circa 1917 or earlier, prior to her acquisition by the Navy. This vessel served as USS Josephus (ID # 3065) during 1917-19. Credit: NAVY. |  | Cardenas, Lazaro, Pres. of Mexico [with U.S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels and Adm. Yancey Williams at reception]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Josephus Daniels comes back to Washington and it looked like old times to see the former Navy Secretary calling at the White House and see him surrounded by newspaper men who used to get the last word on dope from the Navy from Mr. Daniels. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Flag Day, 1914, Josephus Daniels speaking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Al Malaikah and Anezeh Temples attend garden party at U.S. Embassy, Mexico City, May 27, 1941 given by Ambassador Josephus Daniels. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Sect'y. of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, addressing the 2nd Division, Vallendar, Germany, April 18th, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And if Josephus Acosta's word may be taken, he tells us, that in many parts of America there was no government at all. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| "Josephus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Josephus" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Josephus": Flavius Josephus. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
josephus | 135 |
flavius josephus | 30 |
jesus josephus | 5 |
josephus problem | 5 |
josephus daniel | 4 |
daniel josephus uss | 4 |
augustus josephus knip | 3 |
josephus writings | 3 |
antiquity josephus | 3 |
historian josephus | 3 |
the works of josephus | 2 |
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Misspellings | |
"Josephus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Josaphat, Josephea. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-j-o-p-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: josephs. | |
-2 letters: houses, joseph, joshes, opuses, ouphes, pushes, spouse. | |
-3 letters: hopes, hoses, house, jehus, jupes, ouphe, ouphs, pesos, poses, posse, puses, shoes, shops, sophs, soups, souse, spues, supes. | |
-4 letters: epos, hoes, hope, hops, hose, hues, jehu, jess, joes, josh, joss, jupe, opes, opus, oses, ouph, pehs, peso, pose, posh, push, puss, shes, shoe, shop. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 73 65 70 68 75 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- --- ... . .--. .... ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01110011 01100101 01110000 01101000 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o s e p h u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0073 0065 0070 0068 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4481857182748785 |
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