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! style="font-size:120%; background:brown; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | On the origin of [[mankind]]
! style="font-size:120%; background:brown; text-align:center; padding:5px 0;" | On the origin of [[mankind]]
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| style="padding:15px;" |''"For we have not an innumerable multitude of books among us, disagreeing from, and contradicting one another, [as the Greeks have], but only twenty-two books, which contain <b>the records of all the past times</b>; which are justly believed to be divine; and of them five belong to Moses, which contain his laws and the traditions of the origin of mankind till his death. <b>This interval of time was little short of three thousand years</b>; …we men are the most excellent of the creatures of [[God]] upon earth."''
| style="padding:15px;" |''"For we have not an innumerable multitude of books among us, disagreeing from, and contradicting one another, [as the Greeks have], but only twenty-two books, which contain '''the records of all the past times'''; which are justly believed to be divine; and of them five belong to Moses, which contain his laws and the traditions of the origin of mankind till his death. '''This interval of time was little short of three thousand years'''; …we men are the most excellent of the creatures of [[God]] upon earth."''
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Flavius Josephus]]<ref name="FLuke2007"/>
<div style="padding-left:40px;">— [[Flavius Josephus]]<ref name="FLuke2007"/>
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