Jewish war. Flavius ​​I.

The establishment of Roman rule over Judea in 6 B. e. entailed a number of conflicts of a religious, social and national character. The power of pagan Rome over Israel was perceived as an insult to the Jewish religion, which led to political fermentation. In 66, the first Jewish war broke out, and Josef Ben Mattiyahu led the forces of the rebels in Galilee. After the resistance was suppressed, Joseph with forty rebels hid in a cave. As Joseph Flavius ​​himself narrates, when the rebels decided to take each other in order to avoid Roman captivity, he managed to be cunning to be one of the last two survivors, and then convinced his associate to leave the cave and surrender to the mercy of the winner. Emperor Vespasian retained his life to the Jewish military leader, who, after the end of the war, managed to take a certain position at the emperor’s court. He never visited his homeland again.

Josephus, the author written around 75 B. e. The stories of the Jewish war were repeatedly reproached for the bias explained by his dependent position in the Roman court. Which does not cancel the entertainment of his interpretation of the events of the Jewish war and its significance as evidence of a direct eyewitness.