c. AD 77

J. BJ 6.438

The Wars of the Jews 6.438

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

6.438

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

438But he who first built it. Was a potent man among the Canaanites, and is in our own tongue called [Melchisedek], the Righteous King, for such he really was; on which account he was [there] the first priest of God, and first built a temple [there], and called the city Jerusalem, which was formerly called Salem.