01 - Book 1, Ch 01-02 - Antiquities of the Jews Volume 1 by Flavius Josephus

Titus Flavius Josephus (37 – c. 100), also called Joseph ben Matityahu (Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu) was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem.