milkisklim comments on Pilate saith, "What is truth?"

[–] milkisklim@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Considering Josephus was Jewish and alive during the destruction of the Temple, isn't it reasonable to assume he had some understandable bias about how his Roman occupiers were governing his homeland?

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 1 year ago

You could suggest that, but Josephus is, in general, pretty positive about Roman rule, even in Iudea.

It seems likely, to my eyes, that the fact that he treats Roman rule positively, but a handful of Roman officials negatively, suggests that those officials had some behavior of their own that was genuinely disagreeable to Iudeans.

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