The Works of Flavius Josephus: The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, Including "Against Apion"Cosimo, Inc., 2006 M02 1 - 276 pages Now when Titus, going his rounds along these ravines, saw them full of dead bodies, and observed the thick matter running from these clammy corpses, he groaned and spread out his hands to heaven, and called God to witness that this was not his doing.-from "The Jewish War"This first-century volume of Jewish history is still controversial today, two millennia later. Considered a traitor and informer by some, his writings possibly Roman propaganda, Josephus provides a suspect but still vital participant's perspective on the First Jewish-Roman War. Though he was captured by the Romans and later became a Roman citizen, casting this work in a questionable light, some Christian scholars look to this classic 18th-century translation as outside confirmation of the New Testament, making it must reading for anyone hoping to appreciate modern Christian apologetics.Also included here is Josephus' Against Apion, his defense of Judaism.Roman Jewish historian FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS (ca. 37-ca. 100) also wrote the twenty-one volume Antiquities of the Jews.British clergyman and mathematician WILLIAM WHISTON (1667-1752) is the author of the groundbreaking New Theory of the Earth (1696), as a result of which he was named successor to Sir Isaac Newton as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge. |
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... Tower of Antonia * Chap . II . How Titus gave Orders to demolish the Tower of Antonia , and commanded Josephus to urge the Jews again to surrender • • . Chap . III . Concerning a Stratagem that was devised by the Jews , by which they ...
... Tower of Antonia * Chap . II . How Titus gave Orders to demolish the Tower of Antonia , and commanded Josephus to urge the Jews again to surrender • • . Chap . III . Concerning a Stratagem that was devised by the Jews , by which they ...
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... tower Antonia . The beginning of the third wall was at the tower Hippicus , whence it reached towards the north quarter of the city as far as the tower Psephinus , and then 1 This section of the first wall ran almost in a straight line ...
... tower Antonia . The beginning of the third wall was at the tower Hippicus , whence it reached towards the north quarter of the city as far as the tower Psephinus , and then 1 This section of the first wall ran almost in a straight line ...
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... tower Antonia , but is divided from it by a deep ditch , which was dug on purpose to prevent the foundations of the tower of Antonia from joining this hill , and from being accordingly easy of access and less high . And the depth of the ...
... tower Antonia , but is divided from it by a deep ditch , which was dug on purpose to prevent the foundations of the tower of Antonia from joining this hill , and from being accordingly easy of access and less high . And the depth of the ...
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... tower looked like one entire and natural block of stone , afterwards moulded by the hands of the artificers into its ... Antonia , and went on to the palace , and consumed the roofs of the three towers . 1 The remains of Phasaelus , as seen ...
... tower looked like one entire and natural block of stone , afterwards moulded by the hands of the artificers into its ... Antonia , and went on to the palace , and consumed the roofs of the three towers . 1 The remains of Phasaelus , as seen ...
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... tower of Antonia . And all the space exposed to the air was laid with stones of various sorts . When you went through this space to the second temple , there was a partition of stone , whose height was three cubits , of very elegant ...
... tower of Antonia . And all the space exposed to the air was laid with stones of various sorts . When you went through this space to the second temple , there was a partition of stone , whose height was three cubits , of very elegant ...
Contents
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How many of the People had a great inclination | 52 |
The great Distress the Jews were in upon the Burn | 103 |
how that Reply moved Titus Indignation against | 108 |
How Titus raised Earthworks round the Upper City | 115 |
How whereas the City of Jerusalem had been taken | 123 |
How Titus upon the Celebration of His Brothers | 129 |
Concerning the Sabbatic River which Titus saw | 136 |
took that Fortress and other Places | 142 |
Concerning the Calamities that befell Antiochus | 148 |
Titus determines to surround the City with a Wall | 62 |
BOOK VI | 72 |
How Titus gave Orders to demolish the Tower | 82 |
Concerning a Stratagem that was devised by | 92 |
How the People that were in the Fortress were pre | 166 |
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS ON THE ANTIQUITY | 175 |
82 | 261 |
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Page 107 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people.
Page 106 - Thus also before the Jews' rebellion, and before those commotions which preceded the war, when the people were come in great crowds to the feast of unleavened bread, on the eighth day...
Page 247 - God, not [so much] that he would give us what is good, (for he hath already given that of his own accord, and hath proposed the same publicly to all,) as that we may duly receive it, and when we have received it, may preserve it.
Page 65 - Nor was there any lamentations made under these calamities, nor were heard any mournful complaints; but the famine confounded all natural passions: for those who were just going to die, looked upon those that were gone to their rest before them- with- dry eyes and open mouths.
Page 105 - ... and, to speak all in a few words, there it was that the entire riches of the Jews were heaped up together, while the rich people had there built themselves chambers [to contain such...
Page 108 - ... till Albinus took him to be a madman, and dismissed him. Now, during all the time that passed before the war began, this man did not go near any of the citizens, nor was seen by them while he said so; but he every day uttered these lamentable words, as if it were his premeditated vow, "Woe, woe to Jerusalem!
Page 106 - ... cloister on fire; by which means it came to pass that some of these were destroyed by throwing themselves down headlong, and some were burnt in the cloisters themselves. Nor did any one of them escape with his life.
Page 106 - ... lasted for half an hour. This light seemed to be a good sign to the unskilful, but was so interpreted by the sacred scribes, as to portend those events that followed immediately upon it.
Page 65 - Then did the famine widen its progress, and devoured the people by whole houses and families ; the upper rooms were full of women and children that were dying by famine, and the lanes of the city were full of the dead bodies of the aged ; the children also and the young men wandered about the marketplaces like shadows, all swelled with the famine, and fell down dead, wheresoever their misery seized them.