"Flavius Josephus's Books of the History of the Jewish War against the Romans"@en . "The Jewish War or Judean War (in full Flavius Josephus's Books of the History of the Jewish War against the Romans, Greek: \u03A6\u03BB\u03B1\u03C5\u03AF\u03BF\u03C5 \u1F38\u03C9\u03C3\u03AE\u03C0\u03BF\u03C5 \u1F31\u03C3\u03C4\u03BF\u03C1\u03AF\u03B1 \u1F38\u03BF\u03C5\u03B4\u03B1\u03CA\u03BA\u03BF\u1FE6 \u03C0\u03BF\u03BB\u03AD\u03BC\u03BF\u03C5 \u03C0\u03C1\u1F78\u03C2 \u1FEC\u03C9\u03BC\u03B1\u03AF\u03BF\u03C5\u03C2 \u03B2\u03B9\u03B2\u03BB\u03AF\u03B1, Phlauiou I\u014Ds\u0113pou historia Ioudaikou polemou pros R\u014Dmaious biblia), also referred to in English as The Wars of the Jews, is a book written by Josephus, a Roman-Jewish historian of the 1st century.Divided into seven books, it opens with a summary of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC to the first stages of the First Jewish\u2013Roman War (Book I and II). "@en . . . . . . . "The Jewish War"@en . .