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Jerusalem's Traitor - Josephus, Masada and the Fall of Judea (Hardcover)
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Jerusalem's Traitor - Josephus, Masada and the Fall of Judea (Hardcover)
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Today, one of the modern Israeli Army's mottoes is 'Masada shall
not fall again'; Masada has become an iconic event of Jewish-Roman
history. Josephus ben Mathias (AD 37-100), an aristocratic Jewish
priest, was one of the few to learn first-hand of the events on
that terrible night, and it is only from his account that we know
of Masada. But who was Josephus?An eyewitness, Josephus' "The
Jewish War" describes the Jews' war against the Romans of AD 66-73,
the worst catastrophe to afflict the Jewish people between the
Babylonian captivity and the holocaust, in which Jerusalem and the
Temple were destroyed. He alone gives us a picture of contemporary
Palestine at the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls, King Herod and
Christ. And in telling us of his own life, he gives us as much as
we can know of the personal life of any ancient Jew apart from
Christ and St Paul.This new book, from acclaimed biographer Desmond
Seward, uncovers his story, and asks again, of the man who, brought
up a Jew, and having been a General in his country's army after
Judea revolted against the Romans, later became a Roman citizen and
a knight under Vespasian: was he a patriot trapped by circumstance,
for ever dismayed and disturbed by the tragedy of his people; or a
ruthless careerist, determined to survive whatever happened -
cruel, treacherous and cowardly, even insane?
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