Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Jonathan J. Price -- Preface / Jonathan J. Price -- Chapter One Introduction: Rebels and Aristocrats / Jonathan J. Price -- Chapter Two Coalition / Jonathan J. Price -- Chapter Three The First Regime / Jonathan J. Price -- Chapter Four The Coup D'État / Jonathan J. Price -- Chapter Five Civil War / Jonathan J. Price -- Chapter Six The Siege / Jonathan J. Price -- Chapter Seven The Destruction of Jerusalem / Jonathan J. Price -- Epilogue / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix One The Bellum Judaicum as an Historical Source / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Two Sources Other than Josephus / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Three Numbers / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Four Chronological Problems in BJ / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Five The Structure of the Jewish Army: Linguistic Evidence / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Six Jewish Weapons / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Seven Food: Five Notes / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Eight Water / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Nine The Evidence for Desertion / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Ten Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Eleven The Famine Notices in BJ / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Twelve Hand-To-Hand Combat / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Thirteen Three Archaeological Notes / Jonathan J. Price -- Appendix Fourteen Titus' Policy on Deserters / Jonathan J. Price -- Abbreviations / Jonathan J. Price -- Works Cited / Jonathan J. Price -- Index of Sources / Jonathan J. Price -- Index of Names and Places / Jonathan J. Price.

An internal history of the four tragic years of the Jewish rebellion, which began with militant optimism in the year 66 and ended with the destruction of the Temple and city of Jerusalem four years later. The main theme is internal collapse: from the decades before the war, when deepening factionalism throughout Jewish Society contributed to the ultimate outbreak of revolution, to the Temple meeting of 66, when an alliance among competing factions was insecurely riveted together and an "army" with conflicting enthusiasms was formed, from the toppling of the first regime in 67/8, to the disintegration of the second regime from 68 to 70, and from the siege, during which the famine fell on different segments of the population with sadly unequal weight, to desertion, the patterns of which provide a negative image of the constantly shifting political fortunes of revolutionary partners. Classical, rabbinic, archaeological and numismatic evidence are brought to bear on a new interpretation of Josephus' Bellum Judaicum .

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