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Josephus
Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Mattityahu; ) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed Hasmonean royal ancestry.
Philo of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria (; ; ; ), also called '''''', was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.
Theodotion
thumb|right|350px|The inter-relationship between major ancient Old Testament manuscript traditions, showing the textual position of Theodotion (θ') among Greek versions.
Marinus of Neapolis
5th century Neoplatonist philosopher
Symmachus
2nd century translator of biblical texts
Artapanus of Alexandria
Alexandrian Jewish historian
Aristobulus of Paneas
philosopher
Domninus of Larissa
ancient Greek mathematician
Caecilius of Calacte
Greek critic and rhetorician during the reign of Augustus
Jason of Cyrene
Hellenistic Jewish historian (fl. ca. 100 BCE)
Ezekiel the Tragedian
Jewish dramatist who wrote in Alexandria, Egypt circa 3rd century BCE
Eupolemus
Eupolemus () is the earliest Hellenistic Jewish historian whose writing survives from Antiquity. Five (or possibly six) fragments of his work have been preserved in Eusebius of Caesarea's Praeparatio Evangelica (hereafter abbreviated as Praep.), embedded in quotations from the historian Alexander Polyhistor, and in the Stromata (hereafter abbreviated as Strom.) of Clement of Alexandria.
Demetrius the Chronographer
Jewish chronicler