Bentwich sets the Jews and Romans of the first century side by side, then follows Josephus from his command in Galilee to the fall of Jotapata, his surrender and his life under Flavian patronage. The second half weighs his works, his debt to Hellenistic-Jewish writers and his presentation of Judaism to Greek tastes.
A candid, readable study from the Jewish Worthies series of an indispensable but controversial historian. Download the free EPUB.