Flavius Josephus — Against Apion 1:6
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Work: Flavius Josephus — Against Apion
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Flavius Josephus, Against Apion — William Whiston English translation
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As to the care of writing down the records from the earliest antiquity among the Egyptians and Babylonians; that the priests were intrusted therewith, and employed a philosophical concern about it; that they were the Chaldean priests that did so among the Babylonians; and that the Phoenicians, who were mingled among the Greeks, did especially make use of their letters, both for the common affairs of life, and for the delivering down the history of common transactions, I think I may omit any proof, because all men allow it so to be. But now as to our forefathers, that they took no less care abo…
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- Flavius Josephus, Against Apion — William Whiston English translation
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- grc
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- Not part of the public josephus_works Edition (Whiston Antiquities, PG 2848).
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