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he wrote many writings about the history of the jews
historians, as i said earlier, write 'history'
Contra Apion is an apologetic work rather than a history.
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BTW, Josephus's 'day' spanned his whole lifetime...not just the later years of his life when he wrote most of his writings.
Which does not in any way change the date when Contra Apion was written, nor change the fact that the passage in question is about the situation as it was then - not as it wasmore then twenty years earlier.