Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun flavius_josephus

1 sense of flavius josephus

Sense 1
Josephus, Flavius Josephus, Joseph ben Matthias -- (Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100))
       INSTANCE OF=> general, full general -- (a general officer of the highest rank)
       INSTANCE OF=> historian, historiographer -- (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)
       INSTANCE OF=> Pharisee -- (a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions)