Few works of ancient history bring us closer to catastrophe than The Jewish War.Flavius Josephus knew the conflict from both sides. He entered the revolt as a Jewish commander in Galilee; after his capture, he witnessed the Roman campaign that ended with the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Across seven books, his story reaches back through Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Herod the Great, then follows Nero, Vespasian and Titus through the revolt, the siege of Je...

Flavius Josephus was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian, best known for The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. He initially fought against the Romans during the First Jewish–Roman War as head of Jewish forces in Galilee, until surrendering in 67 CE to Roman forces led by Vespasian after the six-week siege of Jotapata.Josephus's works are the chief source next to the Bible for the history and antiquity of ancient Palestine, and provide a significant and independent extra-Bi...

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This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. TABLE OF CONTENTS:Wars of the Jews or Jewish War or the History of the Destruction of Jerusalem (c. 75...

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.Josephus fought t...

The Jewish Wars by Flavius Josephus is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Table of Contents 1 Whereas the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have be...

Discover the Rich History of Ancient Israel with "Antiquities of the Jews" by Josephus, Flavius"Antiquities of the Jews" is a comprehensive historical work that offers an in-depth account of the history of the Jewish people from creation to the Jewish War in the 1st century AD. Authored by the renowned Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, this monumental text provides valuable insights into Jewish culture, religion, and politics, as well as the broader context of the ancient Near East. The b...

Titus Flavius Josephus (37 circa 100) was a Roman-Jewish historian in the 1st-century AD. Josehpus wrote a lot on the first Jewish-Roman War and strongly advocated Hellenistic Judaism. Josephus best known works are The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews.

The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66. Here is all the drama of the Old Testament transformed into a historical narrative of Greco-Roman character; and more important, our only continuous account...

The War of the Jews by Flavius Josephus A detailed historical account of the Jewish-Roman War (66-73 CE), Josephus provides firsthand insight into the conflict, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the fall of Masada. The work explores themes of leadership, betrayal, and the devastating consequences of rebellion against Roman rule.

Antiquities of the Jews or Judean Antiquities is a historiographical work composed by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around AD 93 or 94. Antiquities of the Jews contains an account of history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. In the first ten volumes, Josephus follows the events of the historical books of the Hebrew Bible beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve. The seco...

Josephus, son of Matthias the priest, and on his mother’s side claiming descent from the royal Hasmonæan house—or Flavius Josephus, to give him the name which he adopted out of gratitude to his Imperial patrons—was born in the first year of the Emperor Caligula, A.D. 37-38. St. Paul’s conversion had probably taken place a few years earlier. His life of upwards of sixty years falls into two nearly equal parts, spent respectively in Palestine and in Rome. The Palestinian portion, again, is s...