279: THE JEWRY IS IN
This is a wider-ranging sequel to my previous assemblage [FT246:19] of strange military items culled from the Jewish Wars of Josephus.
It has much profited from Frederic Raphael’s (Jewish classicist-novelist-screenplay writer – an Oscar for his Darling) A Jew Amongst Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus (Pantheon Books, 2018), which at once puts all rivals in the shade. Raphael is lavish with English quotations. Best full translation is GM Williamson’s Penguin (2nd ed. rev. Mary Smallwood, 1981).
For fictional supplement, there is the Josephus trilogy by Leon Feuchtwanger, himself forced
