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Title: The Jewish War (Penguin Classics) by Flavius Josephus, Josephus ISBN: 0-14-044420-3 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Historical eyewitness
Comment: This is a classical historical eyewitness account of the Jewish revolt 66-70 CE against Roman rule. It covers the following events: the outbreak of the war, campaign in Galilee, the isolation of Jerusalem, the fall of the city in the hands of Titus, destruction of the temple, the triumphal return of the conquerors to Rome, and the Massada episode. The first version was written in Aramaic but latter translated to an impeccable Greek, the narration covering many details concerning Roman war tactics (Flavius Josephus was himself a general, first for the Jewish rebels and later an advisor to Titus). It fails to our present concept of how history should be written in the sense that Flavius Josephus puts in too much of his personal life, with considerable self-adulation.
There are controversies as to how reliable is Flavius Josephus account (destruction of the Temple, for example), to what extent facts where distorted in order to set Flavius favorably in the eyes of his fellow Jews and in the eyes of his Roman benefactors. Whatever the criticisms to his personal life or the fallacies in his historical account, the fact remains that his writing is a rich source of information of a war brought about by the religious tension between the Jewish populace who had become impoverished through high taxation and the Roman government. Much ironical it may sound, but Jospehus with his shrewdness and a strike of luck was destined to remain alive so that we may enjoy and gain knowledge of a specific time in history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Josephus's works are treaures in the Jewish history
Comment: The Jewish War is a very valuable source in studying the Jewsih history under the Roman domination. The book covers the facts happened from the occupation of the Greek in Jews, to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. In other words, it is crossing from the Old Testament to the New Testament. However, most of the events it recorded are not covered in the Scripture. Such events as the domination of the Greek and the Macabee reovlt, a period between the two Testaments, are always missed by the Christian since it is not recorded in the Bible. Also, the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, famous to most of the Christian, but only know little. So, this book supplies a lot of information for the background of the Old and New testaments. Herod, Flenix, King Agrippas, they were the names that are familiar with. Therefore, to better understand the New Testament, this book is a must. In imitating Herotodus's style in writing history, Josephus left a lot of other information when depicting the Jewish-Roman war. This book is thus a good source-book for the solidery system of the Roman. How the Roman soldiers matched, how they fought, how they used their battling machinery etc. , and also the geographic information of Palestine and Israel. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: History by an eyewitness
Comment: I found Josephus to be an excellent source of history because he was both an eyewitness and a participant. Though undoubtedly slanted toward his own personal opinion, I think the events Joseph described really happened. He, at first, was part of the rebellion against Rome, but it seems he had reservations about the wisdom of the rebellion. He did fight, however, but was defeated and captured.
After his capture, he apparently realized the hopelessness of war against Rome and seemed to have been surprised and saddened by the civil wars, murders, and political infighting of the Judeans within Jerusalem. He tried many times to shame them out of their infighting, and he encouraged them to surrender undoubtedly because, due to their disunity, they faced certain defeat. He is sometimes referred to as a traitor because he did not support the rebellion to the end. I don't think this is fair to Josephus. Not every political movement in a country is righteous and justified. I wonder how I would act were I were a German citizen during the Nazi era or an Iraqi during Saddam Hussein's defiance of international law.
I found Josephus to be a very rich source of information for "Revelation and the Fall of Judea." I am very grateful that Josephus took the time to write such a detailed account of what he saw. He writes his history almost like a novel. This easy to understand translation makes for very interesting reading. I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Josephus : The Jewish War Books III-IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 487) by Josephus ISBN: 0674995368 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition by Flavius Josephus, William Whiston ISBN: 0913573868 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1980 List Price(USD): $14.97 |
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Title: Josephus: Jewish Antiquities Books I-III (Loeb Classical Library No. 242) by Josephus ISBN: 0674995759 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Eusebius: The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine (Penguin Classics) by Eusebius, G.A. Williamson ISBN: 0140445358 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Cornelius Tacitus ISBN: 0140440607 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1956 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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