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CONTENTS.
The Wars of the Jews:—
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Preface, 537
Book I. From Antiochus Epiphanes taking Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great, 540
Book II. From the Death of Herod till Vespasian was sent to subdue the Jews by Nero, 590
Book III. From Vespasian's coming to subdue the Jews to the taking of Gamala, 631
Book IV. From the Siege of Gamala to the coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem, 655
Book V. From the coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem to the great extremity to which the Jews were reduced, 687
Book VI. From the great extremity to which the Jews were reduced to the taking of Jerusalem by Titus, 716
Book VII. From the taking of Jerusalem by Titus to the Sedition of the Jews at Cyrene, 739
On the Antiquity of the Jews—Against Apion:—
Book I., 761
Book II., 781
An Extract out of Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades, 799
Appendix:—
Dissertation I. The Testimonies of Josephus concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, and James the Just, vindicated, 803
Dissertation II. Concerning God's command to Abraham to offer up Isaac, his son, for a Sacrifice, 812
Dissertation III. Tacitus's account of the origin of the Jewish nation, and of the particulars of the last Jewish War; that the former was probably written in opposition to Josephus's Antiquities, and that the latter was certainly almost all directly taken from Josephus's History of the Jewish War, 818
Table of the Jewish Weights and Measures, 830
Index, 831
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