Josephus I: The Life; Against Apion [Loeb Classical Library, 186]

Josephus; H. St. J. Thackeray trans

ISBN 10: 0674992059 / ISBN 13: 9780674992054

Published by Harvard University Press / William Heinemann LTD, 1976

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Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's name penned on ffep. Limited pencil underlining Slight browning and wear on all edges of text. Dust jacket worn on corners, facing, along spine and ends of spine with fading along spine. Cover slightly worn on corners, ends of spine and front lower edge. Else good. 425 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Josephus I: The Life; Against Apion [Loeb Classical Library, 186]
• Publisher: Harvard University Press / William Heinemann LTD
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674992059
• ISBN 13: 9780674992054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Henry St. John Thackeray (1869–1930) was Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford University.