Capitolo 15
the important command was submitted to him. He betrayed his/her country, and
him saved by anxious subjugation to the Romans. He became a personnel
friend of Vespasian and the continuous companion of his/her child Titus.
Traitor although he was to the national cause, Josephus was a constant
champion of the Jewish religion. All of its jobs are animate with a
desires to introduce the Judaism and the Hebrews in the best light. He was
indignant those historical of pagan wrote with contempt of the they won
Hebrews, and resolved to describe the noble stand served as the Jewish armies
against Rome. He had stirred to anger from the distorsion of the Egyptian Manetho
of the ancient history of Israel, and he could not be silent under the
insults of Apion. The jobs of Josephus are therefore you work writings with
a _tendency_ to glorify his/her people and his/her religion. But they is in the
trusted principal, and it is, indeed, one of the principal sources of
information for the history of the Hebrews in the place-biblical durations. His
style is clear and attractive, and its power to understand the events of
long periods are comparable with that of Polybius. He was anybody mere
reporter; he possessed some faculty to explain as
done what they record and of the true acumen in the meaning of events to pass
under his/her his/her own eyes.
He wrote in Greek to a large extent, both because that language was
family to many cultured Hebrews of his/her day, and because his/her histories
with this it became accessible to readers' world not-Hebrews. Sometimes
he used Aramaic and the Greek. He for example, produced, his/her "Hebrew
You wage war" in that, accordingly in the other of these languages before. The
Version of Aramaic has been lost, but the Greek have survived. Its style is
often eloquent, especially in his/her book "Against Apion." This was a
the historical and philosophical justification of the Judaism. To the closing of
this job that says Josephus: "And so I do daring to say that we am become
the teachers of other men in the greatest number of things and those