Works Cited

Primary Sources

• Cassius Dio. Roman History. Greek narrative of the early Flavian period. Includes brief reference to Josephus's prediction at Dio 66.1.
• Josephus, Flavius. Antiquitates Judaicae, or Antiquities of the Jews. The twenty-book history of the Jewish people from creation through the outbreak of the war in 66 CE. Composed across the 80s and early 90s and published in 93 or 94 CE under Domitian. The principal source for substantial portions of Second Temple Jewish history, and the location of the Testimonium Flavianum at 18.63 through 64.
• Josephus, Flavius. Bellum Judaicum, or Jewish War. The seven-book history of the war from the Hasmonean background through the fall of Masada. Composed in Greek under Flavian patronage and published in the late 70s CE. The principal source for both the war itself and for Josephus's own conduct during it.
• Josephus, Flavius. Contra Apionem, or Against Apion. The two-book defense of the Jewish religious tradition against Greek anti-Jewish polemic. Composed in the late 90s CE.
• Josephus, Flavius. Vita. The autobiographical work published as an appendix to the Antiquities in 93 or 94 CE. The principal source for the biographical material in this episode. Substantially defensive in its construction and often in tension with the earlier Jewish War account of the same events.
• Suetonius. Life of Vespasian. Includes brief reference to the prediction that Josephus made to Vespasian, preserved at Suetonius Vespasian 5.

Secondary Sources

• Bilde, Per. Flavius Josephus Between Jerusalem and Rome. Sheffield Academic Press, 1988. Major treatment of Josephus's biography, literary output, and political position.
• Chapman, Honora Howell, and Zuleika Rodgers, eds. A Companion to Josephus. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. Recent collection of scholarly essays on various aspects of the Josephan corpus.
• Feldman, Louis H. Josephus and Modern Scholarship, 1937–1980. De Gruyter, 1984. Comprehensive scholarly bibliography of twentieth-century Josephan scholarship.
• Mason, Steve. A History of the Jewish War, AD 66–74. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Already cited in Episode 87. The principal recent scholarly treatment of the war and substantial engagement with Josephus as the principal source.
• Mason, Steve. Josephus and the New Testament. Second edition, Hendrickson, 2003. Major scholarly treatment of Josephus as a source for early Christianity, including the Testimonium Flavianum question.
• Rajak, Tessa. Josephus: The Historian and His Society. Second edition, Duckworth, 2002. The standard scholarly biography of Josephus and the principal source-critical analysis of his work. The framework for the character treatment in this episode owes substantial debts to Rajak's analysis.

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