Jewish Antiquities (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) - Softcover

Flavius Josephus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840221321 ISBN 13: 9781840221329

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The works of the Jewish writer Flavius Josephus represent one of the most important records of Judaism and the Jews that survive from the ancient world. The Jewish Antiquities, his largest historical enterprise, is an account in twenty books of Jewish history from the creation to the outbreak of the Jewish revolt against Rome in AD 66. Here is all the drama of the Old Testament transformed into a historical narrative of Greco-Roman character; and more important, our only continuous account of Middle Eastern affairs in the two hundred years that led up to the revolt. William Whiston, successor to Isaac Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, published his famous translation of Josephus' works in 1737. The modern system of chapter divisions has been added.

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About the Author:

Flavius Josphus (c. A.D. 37-100) was born to an aristocratic Jewish family, served as a priest, and later became the commander of Jewish forces in Galilee following the revolt against Rome that began A.D. 66. Captured by the Romans, Josephus spent his later life in Rome under the patronage of the Roman emperors where he composed his history of the Jewish people and his account of the Jewish war that led to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D. 70.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1840221321
• ISBN 13: 9781840221329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 928