The Jewish War
Flavius Josephus
Section 3
About this work
Josephus’s account of the Jewish revolt against Rome and the destruction of Jerusalem. It combines a history of the conflict with his perspective as a participant and later observer.
- Author
- Flavius Josephus
- Date
- Later first century AD
- Genre
- History
- Textual language
- Greek
- Translator
- William Whiston
- Translation / Edition
- William Whiston translation, first published 1737.
3. It is true, these writers have the confidence to call their accounts histories; wherein yet they seem to me to fail of their own purpose, as well as to relate nothing that is sound. For they have a mind to demonstrate the greatness of the Romans, while they still diminish and lessen the actions of the Jews, as not discerning how it cannot be that those must appear to be great who have only conquered those that were little. Nor are they ashamed to overlook the length of the war, the multitude of the Roman forces who so greatly suffered in it, or the might of the commanders, whose great labors about Jerusalem will be deemed inglorious, if what they achieved be reckoned but a small matter.