INTRODUCTION -- The History of the Jewish War is the earliest and the most famous of the works of Josephus.

HISTORY OF THE JEWISH WAR AGAINST THE ROMANS

BOOK I

(1) The war of the Jews against the Romans -- the greatest, not only of the wars of our own time, but, so far as accounts have reached us, well nigh of all that ever broke out between cities or nations -- has not lacked its historians.