THE JEWISH WAR PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Flavius Josephus,G.A. Williamson,E. Mary Smallwood,Late Betty Radice | 512 pages | 02 Jul 1984 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780140444209 | English | London, United Kingdom The Jewish War PDF Book There were also many people in the royal palace itself who inflamed his envy at him; those, I mean, who were obstructed in their designs by the prudence either of the young men, or of Antipater. Why were their many Jews clamoring for Jesus to be the Messiah that would restore the kingdom and expel the Romans? So when Alexander despaired of ever obtaining the government, he sent ambassadors to him, and prayed him to forgive what he had offended him in, and gave up to him the remaining fortresses, Hyrcanium and Machaerus, as he put Alexandrium into his hands afterwards; all which Gabinius demolished, at the persuasion of Alexander's mother, that they might not be receptacles of men in a second war. In War the machinations of others are emphasised. Accordingly, Cassius came into Syria, in order to receive the forces that were at Apamia, where he procured a reconciliation between Bassus and Marcus, and the legions which were at difference with him; so he raised the siege of Apamia, and took upon him the command of the army, and went about exacting tribute of the cities, and demanding their money to such a degree as they were not able to bear. Error rating book. Everything after the speech is an account of the rebellion, much of it an eye-witness account. Not that that makes it reliable. Prices from excl. In the mean time, Antigonus desired that Pacorus might be admitted to be a reconciler between them; and Phasaelus was prevailed upon to admit the Parthian into the city with five hundred horse, and to treat him in an hospitable manner, who pretended that he came to quell the tumult, but in reality he came to assist Antigonus; however, he laid a plot for Phasaelus, and persuaded him to go as an ambassador to Barzapharnes, in order to put an end to the war, although Herod was very earnest with him to the contrary, and exhorted him to kill the plotter, but not expose himself to the snares he had laid for him, because the barbarians are naturally perfidious. After Vespasian did become Emperor in 69, he granted Josephus his freedom, at which time Josephus assumed the emperor's family name of Flavius. From the horse's mouth. Surrounded by the Romans, they rebuilt the city walls, and used a light flotilla to demoralize commerce and interrupt the grain supply to Rome from Alexandria. For of old every one took upon them to write what happened in his own time; where their immediate concern in the actions made their promises of value; and where it must be reproachful to write lies, when they must be known by the readers to be such. Packed with militants of many factions, including remains of forces loyal to the Judean provisional government and significant Zealot militia headed by Eleazar ben Simon , and largely cut off by Roman forces, Jerusalem quickly descended into anarchy, with the radical Zealots taking control of large parts of the fortified city. After the fall of the fortress of Jatapata, Josephus gave himself up, and the Roman forces swept the country. In the mean time, the cup-bearer was sent [back], and laid a plot how to seize upon Herod, by deluding him, and getting him out of the city, as he was commanded to do. Publishing contacts. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Josephus was born into a priestly family. Most upper class Romans were fluent in Greek as were Vespasian and Titus, who reviewed the text before releasing it for distribution. The looting of the Temple and the taking of thousands of prisoners deflates the price of both gold and slaves throughout the region. But when this Ptolemy was pursued by his mother Cleopatra, and retired into Egypt, Alexander besieged Gadara, and took it; as also he did Amathus, which was the strongest of all the fortresses that were about Jordan, and therein were the most precious of all the possessions of Theodorus, the son of Zeno. Now it happened that there was a battle between him and Ptolemy, who was called Lathyrus, who had taken the city Asochis. R 99 min Crime, Drama, History. There will still be enough profit to build the famous Colosseum It is only natural to assume that ten years later in Rome, Titus would invite his famous historian to join him in the royal box for some entertaining games in the Colosseum. Antony was glad of that answer, for he had been formerly treated in an hospitable and obliging manner by his father Antipater, when he marched into Judea with Gabinius; so he constituted the brethren tetrarchs, and committed to them the government of Judea. In Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple agree to hide a Jewish friend at great personal risk of discovery and execution. Not Rated min Drama, History, War. I've read half. Told so well, objectively but not too much so, by a man who was present, on the side of the Romans, to participate in his own nation's destruction. Here is where Josephus' account becomes the cringeworthy indictment of his own character that follows him in his footsteps almost two thousand years later. After King Herod died, and after the deposition of Herod Archelaus , the Romans instituted procurators technically Prefects before 41 to rule the Judeans. Now Hyrcanus was heir to the kingdom, and to him did his mother commit it before she died; but Aristobulus was superior to him in power and magnanimity; and when there was a battle between them, to decide the dispute about the kingdom, near Jericho, the greatest part deserted Hyrcanus, and went over to Aristobulus; but Hyrcanus, with those of his party who staid with him, fled to Antonia, and got into his power the hostages that might be for his preservation [which were Aristobulus's wife, with her children]; but they came to an agreement before things should come to extremities, that Aristobulus should be king, and Hyrcanus should resign that up, but retain all the rest of his dignities, as being the king's brother. The Jewish War Writer The ancient history book still reads relatively well, though in sections I had trouble focusing on what was going on. Page Count. Josephus details a bitter conflict, that although Rome was never in serious danger, cost Rome far more in blood and treasure than was expected. All the while, the Temple was slowly being consumed by fire. It's hard to wade through the interim material, though. He predicted that both Vespasian and Titus would someday be emperor. Osprey, Wellingborough, pp. Fielding more than 60, soldiers, Vespasian began operations by subjugating Galilee. Here is where Josephus' account becomes the cringeworthy indictment of his own character that follows him in his footsteps almost two thousand years later. It filled me with longing for Jerusalem. Josephus himself has an almost modern sensibility, and his decriptions of the siege, the atrocities, the violence, the betrayals, the power stuggles and the intrigues is tinged with both horror and sympathy, outrage and sadness. He praises the Roman conduct of the wa A fascinating account of the very bloody Jewish revolt against Rome, told by a man who got to see both sides very clearly. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Although only the final chapter of the Kitos War was fought in Judea, the revolt is considered part of the Jewish—Roman Wars. On one hand - Rome did fall - Muhammed pbuh in particular stood up against it and won. As they approached the wall to discuss a peace proposal with some of the Jews there, an arrow struck one of the officers in the shoulder. These works provide valuable insight into 1st century Judaism and the background of Early Christianity. Seeing the infidels closing in on the Temple, the rebels became fired with new zeal. The Romans do indeed burn the Temple in 70 AD, but Josephus makes it seem the Jews in the city were equally at fault for its destruction. Bassus took Herodium , and then crossed the Jordan to capture the fortress of Machaerus on the shore of the Dead Sea and then continued into the Forest of Jardus on the northern shore of the Dead Sea to pursue some 3, Judean rebels under the leadership of Judah ben Ari, whom he swiftly defeated. The deepest cause of the war was the impoverishment of the Jewish peasantry. Cestius Gallus to Jerusalem in autumn of 66 C. When John of Gischala reached Jerusalem, the Zealots had already occupied the Temple and elected a rival high priest named Phanias. That delighted the Jews, but Titus nearly had the legionaries executed for cowardice. What's perhaps most interesting about the history is how much of it focuses on Josephus himself and how self-serving the history appears to be. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers I'm here not for the particulars of the history that are dully told with names I can't keep track of but for the firsthand horror-shop that I hear is the siege of Jerusalem. According to Philostratus' Life of Apollonius , Titus refused to accept a wreath of victory offered by the groups neighboring Judaea, on the grounds that he had only been the instrument of divine wrath.