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JOSEPHUS·ANTIQUITIES·BOOK 1

Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1

22 CHAPTERS · 81 SECTIONS

  1. 1.1The Constitution Of The World And The Disposition Of The Elements.
  2. 1.2Concerning The Posterity Of Adam, And The Ten Generations From Him To The Deluge.
  3. 1.3Concerning The Flood; And After What Manner Noah Was Saved In An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards Dwelt In The Plain Of Shinar.
  4. 1.4Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And The Confusion Of Tongues.
  5. 1.5After What Manner The Posterity Of Noah Sent Out Colonies, And Inhabited The Whole Earth.
  6. 1.6How Every Nation Was Denominated From Their First Inhabitants.
  7. 1.7How Abram Our Forefather Went Out Of The Land Of The Chaldeans, And Lived In The Land Then Called Canaan But Now Judea.
  8. 1.8That When There Was A Famine In Canaan, Abram Went Thence Into Egypt; And After He Had Continued There A While He Returned Back Again.
  9. 1.9The Destruction Of The Sodomites By The Assyrian War.
  10. 1.10How Abram Fought With The Assyrians, And Overcame Them, And Saved The Sodomite Prisoners, And Took From The Assyrians The Prey They Had Gotten.
  11. 1.11How God Overthrew The Nation Of The Sodomites, Out Of His Wrath Against Them For Their Sins.
  12. 1.12Concerning Abimelech; And Concerning Ismael The Son Of Abraham; And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His Posterity.
  13. 1.13Concerning Isaac The Legitimate Son Of Abraham.
  14. 1.14Concerning Sarah Abraham's Wife; And How She Ended Her Days.
  15. 1.15How The Nation Of The Troglodytes Were Derived From Abraham By Keturah.
  16. 1.16How Isaac Took Rebeka To Wife.
  17. 1.17Concerning The Death Of Abraham.
  18. 1.18Concerning The Sons Of Isaac, Esau And Jacob; Of Their Nativity And Education.
  19. 1.19Concerning Jacob's Flight Into Mesopotamia, By Reason Of The Fear He Was In Of His Brother.
  20. 1.20Concerning The Meeting Of Jacob And Esau.
  21. 1.21Concerning The Violation Of Dina's Chastity.
  22. 1.22How Isaac Died, And Was Buried In Hebron.

The Works of Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston (1737). Public domain. Text prepared from the Project Gutenberg transcriptions, ebooks 2848, 2850, 2849 and 2846.