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Josephus's works are the primary source for the chain of Jewish high priests during the Second Temple period. A few of the Jewish customs named by him include the practice of hanging a linen curtain at the entrance to one's house, [ 42 ] and the Jewish custom to partake of a Sabbath-day 's meal around the sixth-hour of the day (at noon). [ 43 ]
Josephus relates that there was a Mary, daughter of Eleazar originally from the village of Bethezuba in the district of Perea, east of the Jordan River, who had previously fled to Jerusalem. Distinguished in family and fortune, her property, treasures and food had been plundered by the Jewish defenders of the city during the siege.
Josephus reports that Joshua was an "intimate friend", who reported a plot to replace Josephus as general of Galilee to Josephus' father. Because his father wrote to him of the plot, Josephus was able to resist it. [11] Joshua attempted peaceably to prevent the Idumeans from entering Jerusalem during the Zealot Temple Siege. After they came ...
Josephus paints a very bleak picture of their activities as they instituted what he characterized as a murderous "reign of terror" prior to the Jewish Temple's destruction. According to Josephus, the Zealots followed John of Gischala , who had fought the Romans in Galilee , escaped, came to Jerusalem, and then inspired the locals to a fanatical ...
Josephus records that many people were sold into slavery, and that of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 40,000 individuals survived, and the emperor let them go wherever they chose. [195] Before and during the siege, according to Josephus' account, there were multiple waves of desertions from the city. [196] Tacitus later wrote:
Josephus mentioned in Antiquities of the Jews that "one Judas, a Gaulonite, of a city whose name was Gamala, who taking with him Sadduc, a Pharisee, became zealous to draw them to a revolt". [8] Paul L. Maier suggests that the sect drew their name from the Sadduc mentioned by Josephus. [9]
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Josephus was eventually freed and given a place of honor in the Flavian dynasty, taking the name Flavius, and worked as a court historian with the backing of the Imperial family. In his work The Jewish War , the chief source on the Great Revolt, he provides detailed accounts of the sieges of Gamla and Yodfat , and of internal Jewish politics ...