# library/josephus — Flavius Josephus, Complete Works (Whiston, 1905)

The works of Flavius Josephus — *Antiquities of the Jews*, *The Jewish War*, *Life*, and
*Against Apion* — in William Whiston's English translation (1905 ed.). Included for the
**Seth / two-pillars passage** (Antiquities Book 1, Ch. 2): Seth's descendants invent the
astronomical science ("that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly
bodies, and their order") and inscribe it on **two pillars — one of brick, one of stone**
— to survive Adam's predicted destructions by fire and by water. This is the passage the
project's **Seth** prophet-ficha references (Josephus Ant. 1.2).

## Source

- **archive.org** — *The Complete Works of Flavius-Josephus* (Whiston translation, 1905
  ed.). Public Domain.
  - identifier: `completeworksoff05jose`
- Plain-text download (DjVuTXT, OCR): `https://archive.org/download/completeworksoff05jose/completeworksoff05jose_djvu.txt`

## Files

- `josephus-complete-works-1905.djvu.txt` — full Whiston Josephus (5.5 MB OCR plain text;
  contains Antiquities, Wars, Life, Against Apion).
- `seth-two-pillars-antiquities-1.2.txt` — **focused excerpt**: the Seth two-pillars
  passage (Antiquities Book 1 Ch. 2), de-hyphenated for readability. This is the passage
  cited by the Seth ficha.

Note: OCR plain-text; minor recognition errors ("quanity" for "quantity", "auother" for
"another") are original to the scan and preserved.

Fetched 2026-08-12 from archive.org (Public Domain).