Contributors: Josephus, Flavius and Whiston, William

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Antiquities of the Jews · Project Gutenberg EPUB edition

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  1. CHAPTER 5. How Trypho After He Had Beaten Demetrius Delivered The Kingdom To Antiochus The Son Of Alexander, And Gained Jonathan For His Assistant; And Concerning The Actions And Embassies Of Jonathan. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-14.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00216
  2. CHAPTER 6. How Jonathan Was Slain By Treachery; And How Thereupon The Jews Made Simon Their General And High Priest: What Courageous Actions He Also Performed Especially Against Trypho. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-14.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00217
  3. CHAPTER 7. How Simon Confederated Himself With Antiochus Pius, And Made War Against Trypho, And A Little Afterward, Against Cendebeus, The General Of Antiochus's Army; As Also How Simon Was Murdered By His Son-In-Law Ptolemy, And That By Treachery. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-14.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00218
  4. CHAPTER 8. Hyrcanus Receives The High Priesthood, And Ejects Ptolemy Out Of The Country. Antiochus Makes War Against Hyrcanus And Afterwards Makes A League With Him. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-14.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00219
  5. CHAPTER 9. How, After The Death Of Antiochus, Hyrcanus Made An Expedition Against Syria, And Made A League With The Romans. Concerning The Death Of King Demetrius And Alexander. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#element-17
  6. CHAPTER 10. How Upon The Quarrel Between Antiochus Grypus And Antiochus Cyzicenus About The Kingdom Hyrcanus Tooksamaria, And Utterly Demolished It; And How Hyrcanus Joined Himself To The Sect Of The Sadducees, And Left That Of The Pharisees. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00221
  7. CHAPTER 11. How Aristobulus, When He Had Taken The Government First Of All Put A Diadem On His Head, And Was Most Barbarously Cruel To His Mother And His Brethren; And How, After He Had Slain Antigonus, He Himself Died. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00222
  8. CHAPTER 12. How Alexander When He Had Taken The Government Made An Expedition Against Ptolemais, And Then Raised The Siege Out Of Fear Of Ptolemy Lathyrus; And How Ptolemy Made War Against Him, Because He Had Sent To Cleopatra To Persuade Her To Make War Against Ptolemy, And Yet Pretended To Be In Friendship With Him, When He Beat The Jews In The Battle. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00223
  9. CHAPTER 13. How Alexander, upon the League of Mutual Defense Which Cleopatra Had Agreed with Him, Made an Expedition Against Coelesyria, and Utterly Overthrew the City of Gaza; and How He Slew Many Ten Thousands of Jews That Rebelled Against Him. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00224
  10. CHAPTER 14. How Demetrius Eucerus Overcame Alexander And Yet In A Little Time Retired Out Of The Country For Fear; As Also How Alexander Slew Many Of The Jews And Thereby Got Clear Of His Troubles. Concerning The Death Of Demetrius. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00225
  11. CHAPTER 15. How Antiochus, Who Was Called Dionysus, And After Him Aretas Made Expeditions Into Judea; As Also How Alexander Took Many Cities And Then Returned To Jerusalem, And After A Sickness Of Three Years Died; And What Counsel He Gave To Alexandra. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00226
  12. CHAPTER 16. How Alexandra By Gaining The Good-Will Of The Pharisees, Retained The Kingdom Nine Years, And Then, Having Done Many Glorious Actions Died. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00227
  13. Back matter FOOTNOTES (continued 7) OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00228
  14. Book BOOK XIV. Containing The Interval Of Thirty-Two Years.—From The Death Of Queen Alexandra To The Death Of Antigonus. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00229
  15. CHAPTER 1. The War Between Aristobulus And Hyrcanus About The Kingdom; And How They Made Anagreement That Aristobulus Should Be King, And Hyrcanus Live A Private Life; As Also How Hyrcanus A Little Afterward Was Persuaded By Antipater To Fly To Aretas. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00230
  16. CHAPTER 2. How Aretas And Hyrcanus Made An Expedition Against Aristobulus And Besieged Jerusalem; And How Scaurus The Roman General Raised The Siege. Concerning The Death Of Onias. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00231
  17. CHAPTER 3. How Aristobulus And Hyrcanus Came To Pompey In Order To Argue Who Ought To Have The Kingdom; And How Upon The Plight Of Aristobulus To The Fortress Alexandrium Pompey Led His Army Against Him And Ordered Him To Deliver Up The Fortresses Whereof He Was Possessed. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00232
  18. CHAPTER 4. How Pompey When The Citizens Of Jerusalem Shut Their Gates Against Him Besieged The City And Took It By Force; As Also What Other Things He Did In Judea. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-15.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00233
  19. CHAPTER 5. How Scaurus Made A League Of Mutual Assistance With Aretas; And What Gabinius Did In Judea, After He Had Conquered Alexander, The Son Of Aristobulus. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#element-18
  20. CHAPTER 6. How Gabinius Caught Aristobulus After He Had Fled From Rome, And Sent Him Back To Rome Again; And How The Same Gabinius As He Returned Out Of Egypt Overcame Alexander And The Nabateans In Battle. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00235
  21. CHAPTER 7. How Crassus Came Into Judea, And Pillaged The Temple; And Then Marched Against The Parthians And Perished, With His Army. Also How Cassius Obtained Syria, And Put A Stop To The Parthians And Then Went Up To Judea. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00236
  22. CHAPTER 8. The Jews Become Confederates With Cæsar When He Fought Against Egypt. The Glorious Actions Of Antipater, And His Friendship With Cæsar. The Honors Which The Jews Received From The Romans And Athenians. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00237
  23. CHAPTER 9. How Antipater Committed The Care Of Galilee To Herod, And That Of Jerusalem To Phasaelus; As Also How Herod Upon The Jews' Envy At Antipater Was Accused Before Hyrcanus. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00238
  24. CHAPTER 10. The Honors That Were Paid The Jews; And The Leagues That Were Made By The Romans And Other Nations, With Them. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00239
  25. CHAPTER 11. How Marcus, Succeeded Sextus When He Had Been Slain By Bassus's Treachery; And How, After The Death Of Cæsar, Cassius Came Into Syria, And Distressed Judea; As Also How Malichus Slew Antipater And Was Himself Slain By Herod. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00240
  26. CHAPTER 12. Herod Ejects Antigonus, The Son Of Aristobulus Out Of Judea, And Gains The Friendship Of Antony, Who Was Now Come Into Syria, By Sending Him Much Money; On Which Account He Would Not Admit Of Those That Would Have Accused Herod: And What It Was That Antony Wrote To The Tyrians In Behalf. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00241
  27. CHAPTER 13. How Antony Made Herod And Phasaelus Tetrarchs, After They Had Been Accused To No Purpose; And How The Parthians When They Brought Antigonus Into Judea Took Hyrcanus And Phasaelus Captives. Herod's Flight; And What Afflictions Hyrcanus And Phasaelus Endured. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00242
  28. CHAPTER 14. How Herod Got Away From The King Of Arabia And Made Haste To Go Into Egypt And Thence Went Away In Haste Also To Rome; And How, By Promising A Great Deal Of Money To Antony He Obtained Of The Senate And Of Cæsar To Be Made King Of The Jews. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00243
  29. CHAPTER 15. How Herod Sailed Out Of Italy To Judea, And Fought With Antigonus And What Other Things Happened In Judea About That Time. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-16.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00244
  30. CHAPTER 16. How Herod, When He Had Married Mariamne Took Jerusalem With The Assistance Of Sosius By Force; And How The Government Of The Asamoneans Was Put An End To. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-17.htm.xhtml#element-19
  31. Back matter FOOTNOTES: (continued 6) OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-17.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00246
  32. Book BOOK XV. Containing The Interval Of Eighteen Years.—From The Death Of Antigonus To The Finishing Of The Temple By Herod. OEBPS/2897796973884938199_2848-h-17.htm.xhtml#pgepubid00247