The Wars of the Jews
The Jewish War or Judean War, also referred to in English as The Wars of the Jews, is a book written by Flavius Josephus, a Roman-Jewish historian of the 1st century. It has been described by Steve Mason as "perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history".
Divided into seven books, it opens with a summary of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 168 BC to the first stages of the First Jewish–Roman War (Book I and II). The next five books detail the unfolding of the war, under Roman generals Vespasian and Titus, to the death of the last Sicarii. This work, along with Josephus's other major work, Antiquities of the Jews, provides valuable background material for historians wishing to understand 1st-century AD Judaism and the early Christian period.
Excerpted from The Wars of the Jews on Wikipedia.
The Wars of the Jews
| Author | Flavius Josephus |
| Country | Roman Empire |
| Genre | History |
| Copyright | Public domain worldwide. |
| Book cover | - |
| Ebooks | Project Gutenberg |
| Scans | Internet Archive |
| Audio | Librivox | Internet Archive Reader: Collaborative 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 |
| Read online | The Wars of the Jews I, II |