Capitolo 14
what in new productions and the Bible and the oral traditions that were
to crystallize one century later in the Mishnah filled the national one
heart and mind. Even more that a Hebrew felt an impulse to write the
history of the dark time. This way the first complete books that appeared
in the Jewish literature after the loss of nationality you work historical they were
written by two men, Justus and Josephus, both of whom annoyed an asset
divides in the most recent some wars that they recorded. Justus of
Tiberias wrote in Greek that a furbished chronicle has entitled, "History of the
Jewish king", and also a more detailed account of the "Jewish War"
with Rome. Both these books are only known to us from quotations. The
originalses are lost completely. A happier fate has preserved the jobs of
another Jewish historian of the same period, Flavius Josephus (38 to 95
C.E.), the literary one and political opponent of Justus. He wrote three
histories: The "antiquity of the Hebrews"; one "Autobiography"; "Her Wars of
the Hebrews"; together with a replica to the attacks of a critic of Alexandrian
of the Judaism, "Against Apion." The character of Josephus has been
variedly it appraised. Some consider him/it a patriot that produced in Rome
only when convinced that destines Hebrew it asked for such subjugation. But
the most probable perspective of its career is as it follows. Josephus was a man
of taste and learning. He was a student of the Greek and Latin classics,
what him very it admired, and it was also an affectionate and faithful person in love of
The Judaism. Unfortunately, circumstances thrust him/it in a political
positions from that he could only disentangle from disloyalty and
doubleness. As a youth he had visited Rome, and there it acquired
the enthusiastic admiration for the Romans. When he returned in Palestine,
he found his/her farmers filled with ardent patriotism and around to launch
them against the legions of the Caesar. To his/her dismay Josephus
saw him drawn in the patriotic vortex. From a strange misadventure a