{"id":3442,"date":"2010-06-08T21:05:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/josephus-flavius\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:19:21","slug":"josephus-flavius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/josephus-flavius\/","title":{"rendered":"Josephus, Flavius"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Josephus\"<\/a>Flavius<\/strong> J<\/strong>osephus, <\/strong>the 1st<\/sup> century AD historian and Jewish priest, has been invoked by Georges Diaz-Montexano<\/a> to support his belief in an Iberian<\/a> location for Atlantis(a)<\/sup>. Diaz-Montexano refers to Book II. 374-375, which records the incursion by what appears to have been a tsunami<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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Josephus identified the Hyksos<\/a> with the patriarchal Jews and that after their expulsion from Egypt they founded Jerusalem(f)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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

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Some doubt has been cast on Josephus’ reliability as an historian(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171027010516\/https:\/\/www.pressbox.co.uk\/detailed\/Education\/PLATO_S_ATLANTIS_MEMORIES_IN_FLAVIO_JOSEPHUS_34423.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QsNOAUMyKIo<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211020103203\/https:\/www.abovetopsecret.com\/forum\/thread206916\/pg1&colorshift=yes<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.q-mag.org\/mithras-jesus-and-josephus-flavius.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> <\/span>https:\/\/www.allabouthistory.org\/how-reliable-is-josephus-work-faq.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup><\/span> \u00a0Contra Apion 1.90<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flavius Josephus, the 1st 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3872,240,3870,1828,8025,116,3871,699,2484,1217],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cantabrians","tag-flavio-barbiero","tag-flavius-josephus","tag-georges-diaz-montexano","tag-hykos","tag-iberia","tag-lusitanians","tag-ralph-ellis","tag-st-paul","tag-tsunami"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67100,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/67100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}