Against Apion, Book I

Against Apion, Book I: Josephus's defense of the Jewish people's antiquity, addressed again to Epaphroditus, marshalling non-Jewish (chiefly Egyptian, Phoenician, and Greek) historical sources to answer writers who had questioned how old or how significant a nation the Jews really were. Not scripture -- an apologetic history and defense, not itself a historical narrative. Translated by William Whiston (1737).