The New Complete Works of Josephus

(Revised and expanded edition; commentary by Paul L. Maier) Unabridged. Includes harmony of Greek and English numbering systems, table of Jewish weights and measures, Old Testament text parallels, twenty full-page illustrations, and an updated index.

Flavius Josephus (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.

Introduction

7

(17)

The Life of Flavius Josephus

17

(30)

JEWISH ANTIQUITIES

Preface

47

(2)

From the Creation to the Death of Isaac

49

(31)

From the Death of Isaac to the Exodus out of Egypt

80

(31)

From the Exodus out of Egypt to the Rejection of That Generation

111

(28)

From the Rejection of That Generation to the Death of Moses

139

(27)

From the Death of Moses to the Death of Eli

166

(29)

From the Death of Eli to the Death of Saul

195

(36)

From the Death of Saul to the Death of David

231

(35)

From the Death of David to the Death of Ahab

266

(42)

From the Death of Ahab to the Captivity of the Ten Tribes

308

(25)

From the Captivity of the Ten Tribes to the First Year of Cyrus

333

(26)

From the First Year of Cyrus to the Death of Alexander the Great

359

(28)

From the Death of Alexander the Great to the Death of Judas Maccabeus

387

(30)

From the Death of Judas Maccabeus to the Death of Queen Alexandra

417

(37)

From the Death of Queen Alexandra to the Death of Antigonus

454

(38)

From the Death of Antigonus to the Finishing of the Temple by Herod

492

(33)

From the Finishing of the Temple by Herod to the Death of Alexander and Aristobulus

525

(28)

From the Death of Alexander and Aristobulus to the Banishment of Archelaus

553

(32)

From the Banishment of Archelaus to the Departure from Babylon

585

(29)

From the Jews' Departure out of Babylon to Fadus the Roman Procurator

614

(27)

From Fadus the Procurator to Florus

641

(29)

THE JEWISH WAR

Preface

667

(3)

From the Taking of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes, to the Death of Herod the Great

670

(58)

From the Death of Herod Until Vespasian Was Sent to Subdue the Jews by Nero

728

(47)

From Vespasian's Coming to Subdue the Jews to the Taking of Gamala

775

(29)

From the Siege of Gamala to the Coming of Titus to Besiege Jerusalem

804

(39)

From the Coming of Titus to Besiege Jerusalem, to the Great Extremity to Which the Jews Were Reduced

843

(38)

From the Great Extremity to Which the Jews Were Reduced to the Taking of Jerusalem by Titus

881

(28)

From the Taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the Sedition at Cyrene

909

(28)

AGAINST APION

Book 1

937

(23)

Book 2

960

(23)

AN EXTRACT OUT OF JOSEPHUS'S DISCOURSE TO THE GREEKS CONCERNING HADES

983

(104)

APPENDIX

Dissertation 1 The testimonies of Josephus concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, and James the Just, vindicated

987

(11)

Dissertation 2 Concerning God's command to Abraham to offer up Isaac, his son, for a sacrifice

998

(7)

Dissertation 3 Tacitus's accounts of the origin of the Jewish nation, and of the particulars of the last Jewish war; that the former was probably written in oppositio to Josephus's Antiquities, and that the latter was for certain almost all directly taken from Josephus's history of The Jewish war

1005

(14)

Dissertation 4 Proving that the copy of the books of the Old Testament laid up in Herod's Temple, and thence used by Josephus, the Jewish historian, in his Antiquities, was no other than that most ancient collection or library made by Nehemiah, in the days of Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes; and was free from the several additions and alterations made afterwards in the other copies which are now extant

1019

(17)

Dissertation 5 Upon the chronology of Josephus

1036

(34)

Dissertation 6 To prove that the fragment or extract out of a homily concerning Hades belongs to Josephus, the Jewish historian, and was by him preached or written when he was Bishop of Jersusalem, about the end of Trajan

1070

(7)

Dissertation 7 Of the learned Christopher Cellarius: wherein the history of the family of Herod by Flavius Josephus is vindicated, as it deserves, from the learned John Harduin's suspicions of forgery; and that history is showed to be agreeable to ancient coins

1077

(10)

Table of the Jewish Weights and Measures

1087

(6)

A List of Ancient Testimonies and Records

1093

(8)

Texts of the Old Testament Parallel to Josephus's Histories

1101

(6)

Harmony of the Numbering Systems in the Greek and English Editions of the Works of Flavius Josephus

1107

(8)

Index

1115

(28)

Index of Photographs, Illustrations, and Maps

1143

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