'I am Josephus...I myself fought against the Romans'
In August of AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a six-month siege. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination which began in AD 66 with some early success, but soon became mired in factional conflict. The war ended in the destruction of the famous Jewish Temple (rebuilt by Herod the Great a century before).
The remarkable story of the war is narrated by an eye-witness and participant, Josephus. He was at first a rebel commander, then after his capture, supported Titus in the final assault on Jerusalem. Josephus spares no detail of a horrific conflict - atrocities on both sides, the reign of terror in Jerusalem, the appalling conditions of the siege, and the final mass suicide at Masada. His vivid narrative is our prime source for this period of history. It is a dramatic story, with resonances to the present day.
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In AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a 6 month siege, the world-famous temple burnt to the ground. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination beginning in AD 66 with high hopes and early success, but soon became mired in factional conflict, at its most extreme within Jerusalem itself.
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Introduction
Select Bibliiography
Chronology
Maps
The Jewish Wars
Notes
Index
This paperback is now the best choice for anyone who wishes to read through the most impactful text of western antiquity, outside the Bible, in English... This accessible Josephus will both satisfy and stimulate the considerable interest in this author.
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A new translation of Josephus' Jewish War, whose history is without parallel in the surviving documents of the Roman Empire
Introduction and notes by an acknowledged authority on Roman and Jewish history Martin Goodman
Martin Hammond's translation gives a vivid sense of the energy, variety, and literary skill of Josephus' great work
Full maps and plans to clarify the regions and places mentioned in the text
Comprehensive analytical index
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Martin Hammond retired as the Headmaster of Tonbridge School in 2005. He has previously translated Arrian's Alexander the Great (2013) and Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War (2009) for Oxford World's Classics, as well as Homer's Iliad (Penguin, 1987) and Odyssey (Bloomsbury, 2014). His translation of Procopius' The Secret History for Oxford World's Classics is forthcoming. Martin Goodman is President of the Oxford Centre
for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Reader in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. He has edited a number of books including Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine (BA/OUP, 2011), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (OUP,
2002), and Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World (BA/OUP, 2002). His authored books include Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of ancient civilizations (Allen Lane, 2007) and Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Studies (Brill, 2007)
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A new translation of Josephus' Jewish War, whose history is without parallel in the surviving documents of the Roman Empire
Introduction and notes by an acknowledged authority on Roman and Jewish history Martin Goodman
Martin Hammond's translation gives a vivid sense of the energy, variety, and literary skill of Josephus' great work
Full maps and plans to clarify the regions and places mentioned in the text
Comprehensive analytical index
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199646029
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
416 gr
Høyde
195 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
608
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