Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0691137390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An essential introduction to Josephus’s momentous war narrative The Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes the life of this book, from its composition in Greek for a Roman readership to the myriad ways it touched the lives of Jews and Christians over the span of two millennia. The scion of a priestly Jewish family, Josephus became a rebel general at the start of the war. Captured by the enemy general Vespasian, Josephus predicted correctly that Vespasian would be the future emperor of Rome and thus witnessed the final stages of the siege of Jerusalem from the safety of the Roman camp and wrote his history of these cataclysmic events from a comfortable exile in Rome. His history enjoyed enormous popularity among Christians, who saw it as a testimony to the world that gave rise to their faith and a record of the suffering of the Jews due to their rejection of Christ. Jews were hardly aware of the book until the Renaissance. In the nineteenth century, Josephus's history became an important source for recovering Jewish history, yet Jewish enthusiasm for his stories of heroism—such as the doomed defense of Masada—has been tempered by suspicion of a writer who betrayed his own people. Goodman provides a concise biography of one of the greatest war narratives ever written, explaining why Josephus's book continues to hold such fascination today.
Author: Zuleika Rodgers
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-04-01
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 904740906X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. In particular, the question of historical method, both ancient and modern, is explored from a variety of perspectives.
Author: G.B. Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1136355855
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1999. This is Volume III of a collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean journals from 1591 to and 1610 and includes an Elizabethan journal, being a record of those things most talked of during the years 1599–1603.
Author: George Bagshawe Harrison
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999-08-19
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780415221436
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This set provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean World picture. The volumes vividly convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare; King James; the first voyage to the West Indies; the Great Plague of 1603; the Gunpowder Plot; the Civil War, and the first impact of Galileo's discoveries. In compiling these volumes, G.B. Harrison undertook a massive trawl of original sources of British social and political history of the period. Each journal contains a chronology of key events of the period, unfolding as they would for contemporaries. This rare panorama of one of England's most colourful periods in history provides an essential background for enlightened reading of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, offering as it does, crucial insights into influences affecting the literature and attitudes of the time.
Author: Henry Stevens (F.S.A., of Vermont.)
Publisher:
Published: 1861
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-10-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 3375122357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.