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The Wars of the Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (424 words) |
 | 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) is a book written in greek by the 1st century Jewish historian Josephus. |
| Josephus was a Jew captured by the Romans and it was under the command of the Roman emperor that this account of The Jewish War was written. |
| The Wars of the Jews at the Perseus Project. |
| History : Josephus' writings - The War of the (1067 words) |
| For they have a mind to demonstrate the greatness of the Romans, while they still diminish and lessen the actions of the Jews, as not discerning how it cannot be that those must appear to be great who have only conquered those that were little. |
| Nor are they ashamed to overlook the length of the war, the multitude of the Roman forces who so greatly suffered in it, or the might of the commanders, whose great labors about Jerusalem will be deemed inglorious, if what they achieved be reckoned but a small matter. |
| Moreover, what the Romans did to the remains of the wall; and how they demolished the strong holds that were in the country; and how Titus went over the whole country, and settled its affairs; together with his return into Italy, and his triumph. |
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