(29) HEROD THE TETRARCH, HIS MARRIAGE WITH HERODIAS AND MURDER OF JOHN
THE BAPTIST (_A._ XVIII) 79
(30) HOW HEROD AGRIPPA BECAME KING, AND HEROD THE TETRARCH LOST HIS
TETRARCHY (_A._ XVIII) 81
(31) PETRONIUS AND THE STATUE OF GAIUS (_A._ XVIII) 84
(32) HEROD AGRIPPA’S KINGDOM ENLARGED BY CLAUDIUS (_A._ XIX) 88
(33) DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA (_A._ XIX) 88
(34) THE STORY OF KING IZATES AND HIS MOTHER HELENA (_A._ XX) 90
(35) THE FATE OF THE IMPOSTOR THEUDAS AND OF THE SONS OF JUDAS THE
GALILÆAN (_A._ XX) 93
(36) AGRIPPA II, FELIX, AND DRUSILLA (_A._ XX) 94
(37) THE DEATH OF JAMES, “THE LORD’S BROTHER” (_A._ XX) 95
VII. SCENES FROM THE JEWISH WAR
(38) INTRODUCTION TO THE _JEWISH WAR_ (_B._ I) 98
(39) SEEDS OF THE WAR SOWN UNDER THE LAST OF THE PROCURATORS. RISE OF
THE SICARII (_B._ II) 102
(40) THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE WAR. ABROGATION OF SACRIFICES FOR THE
EMPEROR (_B._ II) 107
(41) INITIAL JEWISH SUCCESS. ROUT OF A ROMAN ARMY IN THE DEFILES OF
BETH-HORON (_B._ II) 110
(42) JERUSALEM BEFORE THE SIEGE (_B._ II) 118
(43) THE FALL OF JOTAPATA. JOSEPHUS TAKEN PRISONER (_B._ III) 119
(44) RECEPTION AT JERUSALEM OF THE NEWS OF THE FALL OF JOTAPATA (_B._
III) 128
(45) MURDER OF THE HIGH PRIEST ANANUS; ALSO OF ZACHARIAS AFTER A MOCK
TRIAL (_B._ IV) 129
(46) HOW JOSEPHUS WAS LIBERATED (_B._ IV) 133
(47) A ROMAN REVERSE INSPIRES FALSE CONFIDENCE (_B._ V) 134
(48) CESSATION OF THE DAILY SACRIFICE. JOSEPHUS APPEALS TO THE JEWS
(_B._ VI) 135
(49) CONFLAGRATION OF THE TEMPLE (_B._ VI) 137
(50) PORTENTS AND ORACLES (_B._ VI) 141
(51) THE LAST SCENE. CAPTURE OF THE UPPER CITY. JERUSALEM IN FLAMES
(_B._ VI) 145
(52) THE SPOILS FROM THE TEMPLE IN THE TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION IN ROME
(_B._ VII) 147
VIII. THE JEWISH SECTS
(53) THE THREE SECTS AND THEIR VIEWS ON FATE AND FREE-WILL (_A._ XIII)
148
(54) THE ESSENES, WITH A NOTE ON PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES (_B._ II) 148
(55) ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE THREE SECTS—AND A FOURTH (_A._ XVIII) 158
(56) WHY JOHN HYRCANUS WENT OVER FROM THE PHARISEES TO THE SADDUCEES
(_A._ XIII) 161
(57) “CONCILIATE THE PHARISEES”—ALEXANDER’S DYING ADVICE TO ALEXANDRA
(_A._ XIII) 164
(58) HOW THE PHARISEES ROSE TO POWER UNDER QUEEN ALEXANDRA (_B._ I) 166
(59) HEROD EXEMPTS PHARISEES AND ESSENES FROM THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
THE ESSENE PROPHET MENAHEM (_A._ XV) 167
(60) THE PHARISEES REFUSE TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE (ANOTHER
ACCOUNT) (_A._ XVII) 168
IX. JEWISH THEOLOGY, SCRIPTURES AND CUSTOMS
(61) SOME ASPECTS OF JEWISH THEOLOGY. MOSES AS RELIGIOUS EDUCATOR (_Ap._
II) 170
(62) A FUTURE LIFE—FOR THE LAW-ABIDING (_Ap._ II) 173
(63) THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES AND THEIR PRESERVATION (_Ap._ I) 174
(64) UNIVERSAL IMITATION OF OUR LAWS THE SINCEREST FLATTERY (_Ap._ II)
177
(65) THE OATH “CORBAN” (_Ap._ I) 179
APPENDIX OF ADDITIONAL NOTES 180
TABLE OF DATES 204
INDEX 207
ABBREVIATIONS
The _Jewish Antiquities_ _Ant._ or _A._
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