The Jewish War: Second half of Book 2
Mar. 8th, 2026 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnLast week: Lots of discussion of various contemporary Roman emperors and their families: Claudius, Agrippina, Nero, Britannicus. Quinctilius Varus and Arminius make an appearance as well. Also Josephus wants to tell you ALL about the Essenes, and none of us knows why but maybe we will find out sometime in the future?? (ugh, I haven't finished replying to comments yet on this either, sorry! -- hopefully will get to that tomorrow)
This week: The Jewish war starts! It's a mess. We do finally meet our hero Josephus, who is just the most heroic, clever, and brave guy. (Probably devilishly handsome too, although this is admittedly not in the text.)
Next week: where shall we read to in Book 3? ETA: All of book 3 for this week!
This week: The Jewish war starts! It's a mess. We do finally meet our hero Josephus, who is just the most heroic, clever, and brave guy. (Probably devilishly handsome too, although this is admittedly not in the text.)
Next week: where shall we read to in Book 3? ETA: All of book 3 for this week!
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Date: 2026-03-12 03:45 am (UTC)Heeee!
I was darkly amused that Josephus traces the origin of the Jewish community in Alexandria - which was, I think, the largest outside of Judea, kind of like New York City today - back to everyone's hero Alexander instead of, more realistically, the Ptolemies.
Ah, I'm glad you mentioned that, that's interesting.