Sometimes he used both Aramaic and Greek.

For instance, he produced his "Jewish War" first in the one, subsequently in the other of these languages.

The Aramaic version has been lost, but the Greek has survived.

His style is often eloquent, especially in his book "Against Apion." This was an historical and philosophical justification of Judaism.

At the close of this work Josephus says: "And so I make bold to say that we are become the teachers of other men in the greatest number of things, and those the most excellent." Josephus, like the Jewish Hellenists of an earlier date, saw in Judaism a universal religion, which ought to be shared by all the peoples of the earth.