These works provide valuable insight into first century Judaism and the background of Early Christianity. Antiquities of the Jews recounts the history of the world from a Jewish perspective for an ostensibly Greek and Roman audience. The Jewish War recounts the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation. His most important works were The Jewish War ( c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews ( c. 94). Josephus recorded the Great Jewish Revolt (AD 66–70), including the siege of Masada. Since the siege proved ineffective at stopping the Jewish revolt, the city's pillaging and the looting and destruction of Herod's Temple (Second Temple) soon followed. He became an advisor and friend of Vespasian's son Titus, serving as his translator when Titus led the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70.
įlavius Josephus fully defected to the Roman side and was granted Roman citizenship. After Vespasian became Roman Emperor in AD 69, he granted Josephus his freedom, at which time Josephus assumed the Emperor's family name of Flavius. In response, Vespasian decided to keep Josephus as a slave and presumably interpreter. Josephus claimed the Jewish messianic prophecies that initiated the First Jewish–Roman War made reference to Vespasian becoming Emperor of Rome. He initially fought against the Roman Empire during the First Jewish–Roman War as general of the Jewish forces in Galilee, until surrendering in AD 67 to the Roman army led by military commander Vespasian after the six-week siege of Yodfat.
Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem-then part of the Roman province of Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry. 100 born Yosef Ben Matityahu ) was a 1st-century Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Flavius Josephus ( / dʒ oʊ ˈ s iː f ə s/ Greek: Ἰώσηπος, Iṓsēpos c.
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