Josephus: The Story of his Divinely Sanctioned Surrender to the Romans.

NOTA BENE: This is an older recording where I struggled more with certain aspects of Greek pronunciation than I do now (e.g. I make light syllables heavy where pitch and stress coincide: ἐξετάτως becomes ἐξετάττως).
"Flavius Josephus (AD 38-100) was a Jewish priest, scholar, and historian whose works are the chief source next to the Bible for the history and antiquity of ancient Israel and aspects of early Christianity. While some accuse him of being a pro-Roman propagandist, even a traitor to his nation (for surrendering and then cooperating with the Roman aggressors) Josephus nonetheless did much to help to rehabilitate Jews in Roman eyes after the disastrous rebellion of 70 C.E. Being himself a man of priestly and royal ancestry, he earned the respect and patronage of emperor Flavius Vespasian, an educated man who could appreciate Josephus's counsel about the virtues of Judaism as an enlightened and civilizing religion. Along with Philo, Josephus became a leading apologist for Judaism, helping to secure tolerance and respect for the Jews of the Roman world and enlightening the pagan Romans with the example of Jewish morality.”
Text: De Bello Judaico, book 3, chapter 8.
Latin translations:
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Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.