Chapter I: Introduction: 9

SELECTIONS 33

I. AUTOBIOGRAPHY

(1) THE BOY AMONG THE DOCTORS. HIS EDUCATION (_V._) 33

(2) A SHIPWRECK ON THE VOYAGE TO ROME. EVE OF THE WAR (_V._) 34

(3) THE _JEWISH WAR_ AND ITS RECEPTION. CRITICISM OF A RIVAL HISTORIAN (JUSTUS) (_V._) 35

(4) AFTER THE WAR. JOSEPHUS AS ROMAN CITIZEN (_V._) 37

II. SPECIMENS OF AMPLIFICATION OF THE BIBLICAL NARRATIVE

(5) MOSES, THE INFANT PRODIGY, INTRODUCED TO PHARAOH (_A._ II) 40

(6) EXORCISM IN THE NAME OF SOLOMON (_A._ VIII) 41

(7) MICAIAH AND ZEDEKIAH PROPHESY BEFORE AHAB (_A._ VIII) 42

III. THE COMING OF THE ROMANS

(8) LOSS OF JEWISH INDEPENDENCE. PALESTINIAN SETTLEMENT UNDER POMPEY (_A._ XIV) 45

(9) DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY INTO FIVE DISTRICTS BY GABINIUS (_B._ I) 47

(10) SETTLEMENT UNDER JULIUS CÆSAR (_A._ XIV) 47

IV. HEROD THE GREAT

(11) THE YOUTH HEROD FREES GALILEE FROM THE BRIGANDS (_A._ XIV) 48

(12) HEROD ON HIS TRIAL BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (_A._ XIV) 48

(13) HEROD AND CASSIUS. MURDER OF ANTIPATER, HEROD’S FATHER (_A._ XIV) 51

(14) ANTONY MAKES HEROD AND PHASAEL TETRARCHS OF JUDÆA (_A._ XIV) 52

(15) HOW HEROD WON HIS KINGDOM (_A._ XIV) 53

(16) HOW HEROD MADE HIS PEACE WITH AUGUSTUS (AFTER THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM) (_B._ I) 55

(17) HEROD AND MARIAMNE (_B._ I) 56

(18) EXTENSION OF HEROD’S REALM. HIS POPULARITY WITH AUGUSTUS AND AGRIPPA (_A._ XV) 57

(19) THE HISTORIAN’S READING OF HEROD’S CHARACTER (_A._ XVI) 58

(20) REFLECTIONS ON THE TRAGIC FATE OF HEROD’S SONS (_A._ XVI) 60

(21) HEROD’S DYING PROVISION FOR A NATIONAL MOURNING (_A._ XVII) 63

V. ARCHELAUS AND PILATE

(22) ARCHELAUS IN QUEST OF A KINGDOM (_A._ XVII) 66

(23) ARCHELAUS DEPOSED AND HIS TERRITORY ADDED TO THE ROMAN PROVINCE OF SYRIA (_A._ XVII) 71

(24) THE REVOLT OF JUDAS “IN THE DAYS OF THE ENROLMENT” UNDER QUIRINIUS (_A._ XVIII) 72

(25) PILATE OFFENDS JEWISH SUSCEPTIBILITIES IN THE MATTER OF (i) THE EMPEROR’S BUSTS, (ii) THE CORBAN MONEY (_A._ XVIII) 74

(26) JESUS CHRIST (_A._ XVIII) 76

(27) TIBERIUS EXPELS ALL JEWS FROM ROME (_A._ XVIII) 76

(28) PILATE SENT TO ROME FOR TRIAL (_A._ XVIII) 77

VI. THE LATER HERODS

(29) HEROD THE TETRARCH, HIS MARRIAGE WITH HERODIAS AND MURDER OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (_A._ XVIII) 79

(30) HOW HEROD AGRIPPA BECAME KING, AND HEROD THE TETRARCH LOST HIS TETRARCHY (_A._ XVIII) 81

(31) PETRONIUS AND THE STATUE OF GAIUS (_A._ XVIII) 84

(32) HEROD AGRIPPA’S KINGDOM ENLARGED BY CLAUDIUS (_A._ XIX) 88

(33) DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA (_A._ XIX) 88

(34) THE STORY OF KING IZATES AND HIS MOTHER HELENA (_A._ XX) 90

(35) THE FATE OF THE IMPOSTOR THEUDAS AND OF THE SONS OF JUDAS THE GALILÆAN (_A._ XX) 93

(36) AGRIPPA II, FELIX, AND DRUSILLA (_A._ XX) 94

(37) THE DEATH OF JAMES, “THE LORD’S BROTHER” (_A._ XX) 95