Yuesefusi's Double Life

Titus Flavius Josephus, a controversial Romano-Jewish historian in 1st-century, was a knowledgeable Jewish aristocratic priests as well as a Roman citizen who maintained close relations with three Roman empires, which in turn reflects the collisions and mingles between the Jewry and Roman. This paper introduces Josephus's life, works and main ideas and investigates those collisions and mingles, and then induces characteristics of Jewry with personal independence and conduct.The whole paper is divided into two parts: introduction and main body. The introduction part mainly presents the current research of Josephus including his life, works and main ideas. The body part consists of three chapters. The first chapter thoroughly illustrates the controversial life of Josephus, i.e. his dual experience in Jewish-Roman. And then it explains primarily that he carried on both the characteristics of Jewry and Roman, which lay the foundation for later discussion. The second chapter mainly expounds his works and personal concept on religion, ethnicity, politics and history. And then it probes into him and concludes that he was a trust-worthy historian. On the foundation of the previous chapters and some relevant historical materials, the third chapter gives a preliminary discussion about those collisions and mingles on politics, religion, culture, economics, military, etc. and then find out the peculiarities and unique characteristics which enable Jewry survived in calamity.