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. |
Contents
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Concerning the Tyrants Simon and John | 30 |
How one of the Towers erected by the Romans fell | 36 |
How the Romans took the second Wall twice and | 41 |
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 |
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