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Historical context: Josephus is our single most important witness to first-century Judea, and he wrote as a participant. For the war he is describing, see the fall of the Second Temple in 70 CE. His brief mention of Jesus is also one of the earliest non-Christian references — historians weigh it when asking how we know Jesus existed.