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What was Flavius Josephus’s childhood like?

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Flavius Josephus was born of an aristocratic priestly Jewish family in Jerusalem. According to his own account, he was a precocious youth who by the age of 14 was being consulted by high priests in matters of Jewish law. At age 16 he undertook a three-year sojourn in the wilderness with the Jewish hermit Bannus.

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