Jessica long biography of josephus
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Welcome back, folks, as I interview Terrance D. Williamson, the author of The Pagan & The Jew: The Jewish Rebellion against the Roman Empire. I did a review of his book last week, which you can find here. I wanted to give you the chance to get to know him.
**WARNING** The following interview may contain spoilers. **WARNING**
Jessica: Well, I know you, but my readers don’t. Tell me about yourself.
Terrance: I generally find it difficult to describe myself, but I suppose most of us with a healthy dose of self-consciousness do. As the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote, “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.” I seem to think that my views may not be all that sought after, but I’ll push that aside and do my best. Pity, after all, is a limited resource; if you use it all on yourself there won’t be any left over for others.
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Department of History
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Review: Josephus’s The Jewish War, a Biography
Josephus’s The Jewish War, a Biography by Martin Goodman (Princeton University Press, £20)
Flavius Josephus, son of Matthias haKohen, better known as Josephus, was well known to many earlier generations of Jews through a popular book wrongly attributed to him, probably written in the latter half of the first millennium. Passages from that book made their way into some of the kinnot said on Tisha B’Av. Today, we know him, if we know of him at all, as the author of The Jewish War (and other writings), an eye-witness account of the revolt of the Jews against Rome, from 66 CE until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE (and afterwards, the siege of Masada in 73-74). Professor Martin Goodman’s fine, erudite Josephus’s ‘The Jewish War’ offers a thorough, scholarly history of that book, its reception, its editions, its translations, and the various controversies surrounding it.
What should we as Jews think of Josephus? He had command of the anti-Roman Jewish forces in the Galilee but, when presented with the alternative of fight to the death, he surrendered, made his peace with the Romans, witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem from Vespasian’s camp, and ended his days on a state pension in Rome, as a fully fledged Rom