Flavius Josephus : eyewitness to Rome's first-century conquest of Judea

Flavius Josephus : eyewitness to Rome's first-century conquest of Judea /

Flavius Josephus (born 37 C.E.) wrote the only remaining account of the utter destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in the year 70, and the heroic battle at Masada waged three years later. His position as a Jewish leader and then as the Roman court historian during the reign of Vespasian en...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hadas-Lebel, Mireille
Corporate Author: Mazal Holocaust Collection
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Toronto : New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1993.
Subjects:
Josephus, Flavius.
Josephus, Flavius, > 37 or 8-97?
66-73
Jewish historians > Biography.
Jews > History > Rebellion, 66-73.
Historiens juifs > Biographies.
Juifs > Histoire > 66-73 (Rébellion)
Jewish historians.
Jews.
De joodse oorlog (Josephus)
Geschiedschrijving.
Rome > Antiquities.
Biography
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • A young Judean aristocrat
  • Spiritual choices
  • The voyage to Rome
  • Governor of Galilee
  • The art of survival
  • The captive of Caesarea
  • Beneath the walls of Jerusalem
  • The Jew of Rome
  • Epilogue: The historian's craft
  • Epilogue: Posthumous fate
  • Appendix: Chronology; Maps; Notes; Index.

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