WAR OF THE JEWS (2) – the last days of the Temple

Book 6 CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF ABOUT ONE MONTH. FROM THE GREAT EXTREMITY TO WHICH THE JEWS WERE REDUCED TO THE TAKING OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS. CHAPTER 1 THAT THE MISERIES STILL GREW WORSE; AND HOW THE ROMANS MADE AN ASSAULT UPON THE TOWER OF ANTONIA. 1. THUS did the miseries of Jerusalem grow worse and worse every day, and the seditious […]

WAR OF THE JEWS (1) – from the coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem

Book 5 CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF NEAR SIX MONTHS. FROM THE COMING OF TITUS TO BESIEGE JERUSALEM, TO THE GREAT EXTREMITY TO WHICH THE JEWS WERE REDUCED. CHAPTER 1 CONCERNING THE SEDITIONS AT JERUSALEM AND WHAT TERRIBLE MISERIES AFFLICTED THE CITY BY THEIR MEANS. 1. WHEN therefore Titus had marched over that desert which lies between Egypt andSyria, in the […]