Chapter VII: Scenes From the Jewish War

(38) INTRODUCTION TO THE _JEWISH WAR_ (_B._ I) 98

(39) SEEDS OF THE WAR SOWN UNDER THE LAST OF THE PROCURATORS. RISE OF THE SICARII (_B._ II) 102

(40) THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF THE WAR. ABROGATION OF SACRIFICES FOR THE EMPEROR (_B._ II) 107

(41) INITIAL JEWISH SUCCESS. ROUT OF A ROMAN ARMY IN THE DEFILES OF BETH-HORON (_B._ II) 110

(42) JERUSALEM BEFORE THE SIEGE (_B._ II) 118

(43) THE FALL OF JOTAPATA. JOSEPHUS TAKEN PRISONER (_B._ III) 119

(44) RECEPTION AT JERUSALEM OF THE NEWS OF THE FALL OF JOTAPATA (_B._ III) 128

(45) MURDER OF THE HIGH PRIEST ANANUS; ALSO OF ZACHARIAS AFTER A MOCK TRIAL (_B._ IV) 129

(46) HOW JOSEPHUS WAS LIBERATED (_B._ IV) 133

(47) A ROMAN REVERSE INSPIRES FALSE CONFIDENCE (_B._ V) 134

(48) CESSATION OF THE DAILY SACRIFICE. JOSEPHUS APPEALS TO THE JEWS (_B._ VI) 135

(49) CONFLAGRATION OF THE TEMPLE (_B._ VI) 137

(50) PORTENTS AND ORACLES (_B._ VI) 141

(51) THE LAST SCENE. CAPTURE OF THE UPPER CITY. JERUSALEM IN FLAMES (_B._ VI) 145

(52) THE SPOILS FROM THE TEMPLE IN THE TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION IN ROME (_B._ VII) 147

VIII. THE JEWISH SECTS

(53) THE THREE SECTS AND THEIR VIEWS ON FATE AND FREE-WILL (_A._ XIII) 148

(54) THE ESSENES, WITH A NOTE ON PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES (_B._ II) 148

(55) ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE THREE SECTS—AND A FOURTH (_A._ XVIII) 158

(56) WHY JOHN HYRCANUS WENT OVER FROM THE PHARISEES TO THE SADDUCEES (_A._ XIII) 161

(57) “CONCILIATE THE PHARISEES”—ALEXANDER’S DYING ADVICE TO ALEXANDRA (_A._ XIII) 164

(58) HOW THE PHARISEES ROSE TO POWER UNDER QUEEN ALEXANDRA (_B._ I) 166

(59) HEROD EXEMPTS PHARISEES AND ESSENES FROM THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. THE ESSENE PROPHET MENAHEM (_A._ XV) 167

(60) THE PHARISEES REFUSE TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE (ANOTHER ACCOUNT) (_A._ XVII) 168

IX. JEWISH THEOLOGY, SCRIPTURES AND CUSTOMS

(61) SOME ASPECTS OF JEWISH THEOLOGY. MOSES AS RELIGIOUS EDUCATOR (_Ap._ II) 170

(62) A FUTURE LIFE—FOR THE LAW-ABIDING (_Ap._ II) 173

(63) THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES AND THEIR PRESERVATION (_Ap._ I) 174

(64) UNIVERSAL IMITATION OF OUR LAWS THE SINCEREST FLATTERY (_Ap._ II) 177

(65) THE OATH “CORBAN” (_Ap._ I) 179