FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY

EDITED BY

STEVE MASON

VOLUME 3

JUDEAN ANTIQUITIES 1–4

TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY

BY

LOUIS H. FELDMAN

BRILL
LEIDEN · BOSTON · KÖLN

2000

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Josephus, Flavius:

Translation and commentary / Flavius Josephus. Ed. by Steve
Mason.—Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill
Vol. 3. Judean antiquities 1–4 / transl. and commentary by Louis
H. Feldman.–2000

ISBN 90 04 10679 0

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My Dearly Beloved Sister,
Rose, ע׳׳ה

פיה פתחה בחכמח ,ותורת חסד צל־לשׁנה

Contents

Series Preface: The Brill Josephus Project

Introduction to the Judean Antiquities

Introduction

Maps

Abbreviations

Josephus’ Judean Antiquities

Book One

Book Two

Book Three

Book Four

Bibliography

Indices

2. Ancient Texts

Greek Translations of the Bible (non-LXX)

Pseudepigrapha

Dead Sea Scrolls

Christian Writers

Moslem Sources

Philo

Pseudo-Philo

Josephus

Other (Alleged) Greco-Jewish Writers

Rabbinic and Allied Literature

Mishnah

Tosefta

Babylonian Talmud

Minor Tractates

Jerusalem Talmud

Midrashim and Other Rabbinic Works

Medieval Jewish Biblical Commentaries and Other Medieval and Modern Jewish Works

Samaritan Literature

Classical Greek Authors

Classical Latin Authors

Inscriptions

Papyri

3. Names and Subjects

4. Geographical Place-Names

5. Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic (Meanings of Hebrew and Aramaic Words), Arabic, and Coptic-Egyptian Words

6. Modern Scholars

Series Preface

The Brill Josephus Project

Titus (?) Flavius Josephus (37–ca. 100 CE) was born Joseph son of Mattathyahu, a priestly aristocrat in Judea. During the early stages of the war against Rome (66–74 CE), he found himself leading a part of the defense in Galilee, but by the spring of 67, his territory overrun, he had surrendered under circumstances that would furnish grounds for endless accusation. Taken to Rome by the Flavian conquerors, he spent the balance of his life writing about the war, Judean history and culture, and his own career. He composed four works in thirty volumes.

If Josephus boasts about the unique importance of his work (War 1.1–3; Ant. 1.1–4) in the fashion of ancient historians, few of his modern readers could disagree with him. By the accidents of history, his narratives have become the indispensable source for all scholarly study of ...