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CONTENTS

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Introduction 9

Selections 33


I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY[1]

(1) The Boy among the Doctors. His Education
(V.) 33

(2) A Shipwreck on the Voyage to Rome. Eve of
the War
(V.) 34

(3) The Jewish War and its Reception. Criticism
of a Rival Historian
(Justus) (V.) 35

(4) After the War. Josephus as Roman Citizen (V.) 37


II. SPECIMENS OF AMPLIFICATION OF THE
BIBLICAL NARRATIVE

(5) Moses, the Infant Prodigy, introduced to
Pharaoh
(A. II) 40

(6) Exorcism in the Name of Solomon (A. VIII) 41

(7) Micaiah and Zedekiah Prophesy before Ahab
(A. VIII) 42


III. THE COMING OF THE ROMANS

(8) Loss of Jewish Independence. Palestinian
Settlement under Pompey
(A. XIV) 45

(9) Division of the Country into Five Districts
by Gabinius
(B. I) 47

(10) Settlement under Julius Cæsar (A. XIV) 47


IV. HEROD THE GREAT

(11) The Youth Herod frees Galilee from the
Brigands
(A. XIV) 48

(12) Herod on his Trial before the Sanhedrin
(A. XIV) 48

(13) Herod and Cassius. Murder of Antipater,
Herod's Father
(A. XIV) 51

  1. See also §§ (38), (43), (44), (46), (48).