Their work is highly prized and collected, and the caliber of this quality is shown in each of the over 60 full-page steel engravings featuring the work of the most skilled artisans of the time. This classic translation by William Whiston is a treasure of information and beautifully detailed artwork from the historic Tallis publishing family, best known for their illustrated maps of the world with detailed vignettes. Best known for his works The Antiquities of the Jews and The Jewish Wars, Josephus is an oft-cited source for students of biblical chronology and history. Sequel to the History of the Jews is included – continuing the historical writings to the mid-19th century.Ī priest, scholar, and warrior, this Jewish historian was born just a few years after the death of Jesus Christ. The sources of knowledge that we have of this war are Josephus's account and from the Talmud (gittin 57b) and in midrash Eichah.#2241 An exquisite reproduction of an original, circa-1850 printing, the book is a remarkable record of history from Creation to around 100 AD, and the world of the early church. It was later translated into Greek, probably under the supervision of Josephus himself. The book was written about 75, originally in Josephus's "paternal tongue", probably Aramaic, though this version has not survived. It is a description of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC to the fall and destruction of Jerusalem in the First Jewish-Roman War in AD 70. The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, or as it usually appears in modern English translations, The Jewish War - original title: Phlauiou Iôsêpou historia Ioudaïkou polemou pros Rhômaious bibliona) is a book written by the 1st century Jewish historian Josephus. Translated by William Whiston (1667 - 1752)
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