Jewish Antiquities, Volume V: Books 12-13

by Josephus, Ralph Marcus (Translator)

Overview

Greco-Roman antiquity’s premier Jewish historian.

Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the cause of some Jewish priests he returned to Jerusalem and in 66 tried to prevent revolt against Rome, managing for the Jews the affairs of Galilee. In the troubles that followed he made his peace with Vespasian. Present at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, he received favors from these two as emperors and from Domitian, and assumed their family name Flavius. He died after 97.

As a historical source Josephus is invaluable. His major works are: History of the Jewish War, in seven books, from 170 BC to his own time, first written in Aramaic but translated by himself into the Greek we now have; and Jewish Antiquities, in twenty books, from the creation of the world to AD 66. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the works of Josephus, which is in thirteen volumes, also includes the autobiographical Life and his treatise Against Apion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674995772
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1943
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #365
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Ralph Marcus (1900–1956) taught at the Jewish Institute of Religion at Columbia and at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

The Jewish Antiquities

Book XII

Book XIII

Appendices

A. Ancient Table Of Contents

B. Date Of The High Priest Simon The Just

C. Early Seleucid Rulers And The Jews

D. Antiochus III And The Jews

E. Literature On The Oniads And Tobiads And Palestine Under Ptolemaic Rule

F. Literature On Spartans And Jews

G. Literature On The Background Of The Maccabaean Revolt

H. Literature On The Seleucid Era And The Chronology Of The Hasmonaean Period

I. Literature On Antiochus Epiphanes And The Samaritans

J. Literature On Hellenistic And Roman Decrees

K. Literature On The Hasmonaeans In Rabbinic Tradition

L. Literature On The Status Of Judaea

M. Literature On Hasmonaean Coinage Abbreviations