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• Audiobook · 49 h 15 min · 139 partsThe Antiquities of the JewsFlavius Josephus (c. 37 – c. 100) · Translated by William Whiston (1737)

  A history of the Jewish people in twenty books, written in Greek by the historian Flavius Josephus about AD 93–94. It begins with the creation account of Genesis and runs to the eve of the revolt against Rome in AD 66.

  Read by TriciaG, Ann Boulais, Nicole Kay, Bill Mosley, Stephen Marsh, Sibella Denton, Paul Huckerby, ontheroad, Ethan Rampton, DL Pead, Lynne Handler, Jason Justice, Linda Hogan, Guero, Preston Scrape, Amy Gramour, Jim Clevenger, Sienna, Mich_elle, Sheehan_p, Hollis Hanover, hpark, Gerald Peter Morgan, Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan, Paula Jayne Winnig, Karen, David Bercot, Create, David Rees-Thomas

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• Audiobook · 23 h 23 min · 72 partsThe Wars of the JewsFlavius Josephus (c. 37 – c. 100) · Translated by William Whiston (1737)

  Josephus’s account, written in the 70s AD, of the Jewish revolt against Rome (AD 66–73), in which he himself took part, with its background from the 160s BC. It describes the siege and destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.

  Read by TriciaG, Ann Boulais, Mark Wilson, Sibella Denton, lukeprog, Kristine Bekere, Andrew Coleman, MorganScorpion, Hollis Hanover, ontheroad, David Leeson, John Baker, Katie Riley, Mark F. Smith, JoeD, Graham Redman, Kevin Lavin, hearhis, harsh365

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• Audiobook · 14 h 53 min · 37 partsChurch HistoryEusebius of Caesarea (c. 260 – 339) · Translated by Arthur Cushman McGiffert (1890)

  The earliest surviving history of the Christian church, written in Greek in the early fourth century by Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea: ten books from the time of the apostles to the reign of Constantine, quoting many earlier writers whose works are otherwise lost. This recording also includes his “Martyrs of Palestine”.

  Read by David Leeson

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• Audiobook · 3 h 27 min · 11 partsThe Pilgrimage of EtheriaEgeria (4th century) · Translated by M. L. McClure and C. L. Feltoe (1919)

  The oldest surviving account of a Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land told by the pilgrim herself: a letter written in Latin in the early 380s by a woman now usually called Egeria (in older books Etheria or Silvia) to her “sisters” at home in the West. She describes Sinai, the land of Goshen, Mount Nebo and the Jordan valley, Edessa and Harran, and the services she saw in Jerusalem and Bethlehem through the church year. The letter survives in one damaged 11th-century manuscript found in 1884, its beginning and end lost. This recording reads the English translation of 1919 by M. L. McClure and C. L. Feltoe with their introduction, and marks the gaps in the text.

  Read by David Wales

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• Audiobook · 25 h 11 min · 63 partsThe Innocents AbroadMark Twain (1835 – 1910)

  Mark Twain’s humorous account of a pleasure cruise in 1867 on the steamship Quaker City, from New York through Europe and the Mediterranean to Constantinople, the Holy Land and Egypt, published in 1869. Nearly a third of the book follows the ride through Syria and Palestine — Damascus, Galilee, Nazareth, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea — as an American traveller saw them then. It is a comic travel book in Twain’s own voice of 1869: some passages mock the places, the people and his fellow travellers, and it carries the prejudices of its time.

  Read by bscottholmes

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• Audiobook · 8 h 33 min · 30 partsEothenAlexander William Kinglake (1809 – 1891)

  Alexander Kinglake’s account of his journey of 1834–35 through the Ottoman East, published in 1844 and long one of the best-known English travel books: Belgrade and Constantinople, the Troad, Smyrna and Cyprus, a visit to Lady Hester Stanhope in Lebanon, Galilee, the Dead Sea, the Jordan, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the desert crossing to Cairo in the plague of 1835, and the way back by Suez, Gaza, Nablus and Damascus. It is written in the personal, ironic voice of a young Englishman of the 1830s, and it carries the prejudices of its time.

  Read by hefyd, Sibella Denton, Andrew Symons, Kalynda, Anna Simon, kristiface, Varra Unreal

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• Audiobook · 7 h 16 min · 16 partsEastern Pilgrims: The Travels of Three LadiesAgnes Smith Lewis (1843 – 1926)

  Agnes Smith’s account, published in 1870 under her maiden name, of the journey she made from August 1868 to the next summer with her twin sister Margaret and a friend — three women travelling on their own: by Munich and Constantinople to Cyprus and Egypt, up the Nile to Wadi Halfa, then from Jaffa to Hebron and Jerusalem, Bethany, the Cave of Adullam, the Jordan and the Dead Sea, the Holy Fire at Easter, and on by Bethel to Damascus and the cedars of Lebanon. Later, as Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson, the twins found the Sinai palimpsest of the Old Syriac Gospels at Saint Catherine’s Monastery (1892).

  Read by Owlivia

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• Audiobook · 23 h 21 min · 81 partsBen-Hur: A Tale of the ChristLew Wallace (1827 – 1905)

  A novel — fiction, not history — by the American writer Lew Wallace, a Union general in the Civil War, published in 1880. Its hero Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman of Jerusalem sent to the Roman galleys, his rival Messala and most of its people are invented. The story moves through Judea, Antioch and Rome in the time of Jesus, from the journey of the Magi to the Crucifixion, and its scenes from the Gospels are the novelist’s retelling. Wallace drew the places and customs from books and maps before he had seen the Holy Land. It was one of the best-selling American novels of its century and was filmed in 1925 and 1959.

  Read by Mark F. Smith

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