Divided into seven books, The Jewish War opens with a summary of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 168 BC to the first stages of the First Jewish-Roman War.
In the wake of the suppression of the Jew.
The Jewish War is written by Josephus, a Roman-Jewish historian of the 1st century.
The next five books detail the unfolding of the war, under Roman generals Vespasian and Titus, to the death of the last Sicarii.
Divided into seven books, The Jewish War opens with a summary of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 168 BC to the first stages of the First Jewish-Roman War