Josephus, Flavius

Flavius Josephus, the 1^st century AD historian and Jewish priest, has been invoked by Georges Diaz-Montexano to support his belief in an Iberian location for Atlantis^(a). Diaz-Montexano refers to Book II. 374-375, which records the incursion by, what appears to have been a tsunami, onto the Atlantic coastal lands of modern Spain and Portugal, while at the time occupied by the Lusitanians and Cantabrians. Diaz-Montexano claims, let it be said, without proof, that this could only have been the same inundation that destroyed Atlantis.

>>Josephus identified the Hyksos with the patriarchal Jews and that after their expulsion from Egypt they founded Jerusalem^(f).<<

Ralph Ellis has made the wild claim that Josephus was in fact St. Paul!^(b) This idea has also been put forward by others^(c). On the other hand Flavio Barbiero offers the theory that Josephus and St. Paul were certainly known to each other^(d). In his book, The Secret Society of Moses ^[1102], Barbiero expands on the idea that Josephus played an important role in the development of early Christianity.

Some doubt has been cast on Josephus’ reliability as an historian^(c).

^(a) https://web.archive.org/web/20171027010516/https://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Education/PLATO_S_ATLANTIS_MEMORIES_IN_FLAVIO_JOSEPHUS_34423.html

^(b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsNOAUMyKIo

^(c) https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread206916/pg1&colorshift=yes

^(d) https://www.q-mag.org/mithras-jesus-and-josephus-flavius.html

^(e) https://www.allabouthistory.org/how-reliable-is-josephus-work-faq.htm

^(f)  Contra Apion 1.90 *