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References, _e.g._ _Ant._ XVII. 6.5 f. (171-181). The figures 6.5 f. refer to the older division, found in all editions (Niese’s included), of the books into sections (6 or vi) and subsections (5 and following subsection). The bracketed figures (171-181) indicate the smaller d...
With these words he was about to surrender to Nicanor. But when the Jews who had sought refuge along with him understood that Josephus was yielding to entreaty, they came round...
9. Part 9The Jews being now everywhere up in arms, Cestius[253] decided to remain inactive no longer. He accordingly left Antioch and advanced upon Ptolemais. His force consisted of the...
11. Part 11“Yet, be sure, John, it is no disgrace to repent of misdeeds, even at the last; and, if you desire to save your country, you have a noble example set before you in Jeconiah, kin...
4. Part 4So he struck Micaiah, and, when no harm happened to him, Ahab took courage and was ready to lead his army against the king of Syria. Fate, I suppose, was winning the day and cau...
3. Part 3My procedure in the following selections has been first to produce a version of my own, and then carefully to revise it with the help of both Shilleto’s, Whiston and Traill. In...
13. Part 13A certain Jonathan,[373] however, an intimate friend of Hyrcanus and a follower of the sect of the Sadducees (whose doctrines are the reverse of those of the Pharisees), asserte...
15. Part 15Of the eight passages the first three relate to the Baptist. (1) A description of “the savage” (_Wilder_) and his baptism, of his being brought before Archelaus and how Simon th...
7. Part 7... Herod admitted that he had the arms in his armoury; he could not do otherwise as the facts were there to confute him. Gaius, accordingly, accepting this as proof of the accu...
8. Part 8On hearing of the death of Festus, [Sidenote: A.D. 62] Cæsar[227] sent Albinus to Judæa as governor. King (Agrippa) at the same time deprived Joseph of the high priesthood and a...
2. Part 2(iv) The treatise _Against Apion_ (in two books) is, on the other hand, the most pleasing of our author’s works, showing a well-designed plan, great literary skill, and a more g...
6. Part 6Now in the tenth year of Archelaus’s rule, [Sidenote: A.D. 6] the leading men of Judæa and Samaria, impatient of his cruel and tyrannical conduct, laid an accusation against him...
5. Part 5So Cæsar bestowed upon Herod the territory of Zenodorus, an extensive region lying between Trachonitis and Galilee (and embracing) Ulatha and Paneas[116] and the neighbouring co...
12. Part 12They occupy no one city; each city has its own settlement. On the arrival of any of the sect from elsewhere, all the resources of the community are put at their disposal, just a...
14. Part 14Of these, five are the books of Moses, comprising the laws and the traditional history from the birth of man down to the death of the lawgiver. This period falls only a little s...
1. Part 1References, _e.g._ _Ant._ XVII. 6.5 f. (171-181). The figures 6.5 f. refer to the older division, found in all editions (Niese’s included), of the books into sections (6 or vi)...
16. Part 16(4) The canon here laid down has not governed the historian’s practice. He does not scruple to draw upon apocryphal books like 1 Maccabees, nor does he hint that the authorities...