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Josephus's The Jewish War - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Josephus's The Jewish War - A Biography (Hardcover)
Series: Lives of Great Religious Books
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An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrative The
Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish
revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of
Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman
describes the life of this book, from its composition in Greek for
a Roman readership to the myriad ways it touched the lives of Jews
and Christians over the span of two millennia. The scion of a
priestly Jewish family, Josephus became a rebel general at the
start of the war. Captured by the enemy general Vespasian, Josephus
predicted correctly that Vespasian would be the future emperor of
Rome and thus witnessed the final stages of the siege of Jerusalem
from the safety of the Roman camp and wrote his history of these
cataclysmic events from a comfortable exile in Rome. His history
enjoyed enormous popularity among Christians, who saw it as a
testimony to the world that gave rise to their faith and a record
of the suffering of the Jews due to their rejection of Christ. Jews
were hardly aware of the book until the Renaissance. In the
nineteenth century, Josephus's history became an important source
for recovering Jewish history, yet Jewish enthusiasm for his
stories of heroism-such as the doomed defense of Masada-has been
tempered by suspicion of a writer who betrayed his own people.
Goodman provides a concise biography of one of the greatest war
narratives ever written, explaining why Josephus's book continues
to hold such fascination today.
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