We can turn to another account by an eminent, ancient scholar: Titus Flavius Josephus, who gave a now-famous description of a "miraculous phenomenon, defying belief" in the first century AD. Almost apologetically, he wrote that "what I am about to relate

1. …to relate would, I imagine, have been deemed a fable, were it not for the narratives of eyewitnesses". And we cant blame him, given that the phenomenon itself involved "chariots and armed battalions hurtling through the clouds and encompassing the tid:3174 (2) (hivelink)