c. AD 97

J. Ap. 1.311

Against Apion 1.311

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

1.311

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

311and that their city was named Hierosyla, from this their robbing of the temples; but that still, upon the success they had afterwards, they through course of time changed its denomination, that it might not be a reproach to them, and called the city Hierosolyma, and themselves Hierosolymites.”