The eyewitness history of the Jewish revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 — essential background to the New Testament era. Project Gutenberg eBook 2850 with its license retained.
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From the opening: Chapters 1–11
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Book 2
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 9
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Book III
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Book IV
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter V
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Book V
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Book VI
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Book VII
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter V
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Preface
1. 1 Whereas the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner, of those that ever were heard of; both of those wherein cities have fought against cities, or nations against nations; while some men who were not concerned in the affairs themselves have gotten together vain and contradictory stories by hearsay, and have written them down after a sophistical manner; and while those that were there present have given false accounts of things, and this either out of a humor of flattery to the Romans, or of hatred towards the Jews; and while their writings contain sometimes accusations, and sometimes encomiums, but no where the accurate truth of the facts; I have proposed to myself, for the sake of such as live under the government of the Romans, to translate those books into the Greek tongue, which I formerly composed in the language of our country, and sent to the Upper Barbarians; 2 Joseph, the son of Matthias, by birth a Hebrew, a priest also, and one who at first fought against the Romans myself, and was forced to be present at what was done afterwards, [am the author of this work].
2. Now at the time when this great concussion of affairs happened, the affairs of the Romans were themselves in great disorder. Those Jews also who were for innovations, then arose when the times were disturbed; they were also in a flourishing condition for strength and riches, insomuch that the affairs of the East were then exceeding tumultuous, while some hoped for gain, and others were afraid of loss in such troubles; for the Jews hoped that all of their nation which were beyond Euphrates would have raised an insurrection together with them. The Gauls also, in the neighborhood of the Romans, were in motion, and the Geltin were not quiet; but all was in disorder after the death of Nero. And the opportunity now offered induced many to aim at the royal power; and the soldiery affected change, out of the hopes of getting money. I thought it therefore an absurd thing to see the truth falsified in affairs of such great consequence, and to take no notice of it; but to suffer those Greeks and Romans that were not in the wars to be ignorant of these things, and to read either flatteries or fictions, while the Parthians, and the Babylonians, and the remotest Arabians, and those of our nation beyond…
Contents (99 sections)
- Opening
- *** Start of the Project Gutenberg Ebook the Wars of the Jews; or, the History of the…
- Or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem
- Chapters 1–11
- War Preface Footnotes
- Book I
- Chapters 3–4
- Chapters 5–6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapters 9–10
- Chapter 11
- Chapters 12–13
- Chapters 14–15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapters 18–19
- Chapters 20–21
- Chapters 22–23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapters 28–29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- War Book 1 Footnotes
- Book II
- Chapters 3–4
- Chapters 5–6
- Chapters 7–8
- Chapters 9–10
- Chapters 11–12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- War Book 2 Footnotes
- Book III
- Chapters 3–4
- Chapter 5
- Chapters 6–7
- Chapter 6 (continued)
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- War Book 3 Footnotes
- Book IV
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter V
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- War Book 4 Footnotes
- Book V
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapters 8–9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- War Book 5 Footnotes
- Book VI
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapters 7–8
- Chapters 9–10
- War Book 6 Footnotes
- Book VII
- Chapters 3–4
- Chapter V
- Chapter 6
- Chapters 7–8
- Chapters 9–10
- Chapter 11
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