Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 3 Judean Antiquities Books 1-4: Translation and Commentary Book

Josephus had access to texts that no longer exist, and folklore. Details about Moses you never read in the Bible: long winded speeches, descriptions of him in childhood. Expanded discussions of the genocide advocated in the Bible.
IF you suspected David was a creep and a usurper, there is more evidence here, although Josephus himself follows the conventional view that David was wonderful and devout.
An astute historian, keenly and openly aware of his own motives, Josephus is underappreciated, perhaps because he was a Roman officer at the time of the Jewish rebellion.
Although he offers no insight into such mysteries as the Easu/Jacob hairy man, smooth man thing, there is a lot more detail. Why did Jacob (farmer, favorite of his mother) who did so many sneaky things to his brother Esau (hunter, favorite of his father), turn out to be the chosen one?
I must explain that I mine the Bible for traces of stone age roots, along the lines pointed out by Robert Graves and James Frasier.