The Jewish Wars

The Jewish War is a history book by Flavius Josephus about Jewish-Roman wars. Divided into seven books, it opens with a summary of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC to the first stages of the First Jewish-Roman War (Book I and II). The next five books detail the unfolding of the war, under Roman generals Vespasian and Titus, to the death of the last Sicarii.

Titus Flavius Josephus was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, ...