Lectionary Calendar

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
Tuesday in Easter Week

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Historical Writings

B.C. (Before Christ)

Writings of Flavius Josephus

The History of the Jewish War

Book 6 — From the Great Extremity to which the Jews were reduced to the taking of Jerusalem by Titus

Chapter 1 — That the miseries still grew worse; and how the Romans made an assault upon the tower of Antonia

Chapter 2 — How Titus gave orders to demolish the tower of Antonia and then persuaded Josephus to exhort the Jews again [to a surrender]

Chapter 3 — Concerning a stratagem that was devised by the Jews, by which they burnt many of the Romans; with another description of the terrible famine that was in the city

Chapter 4 — When the banks were completed and the battering rams brought, and could do nothing, Titus gave orders to set fire to the gates of the temple; in no long time after which the holy house itself was burnt down, even against his consent

Chapter 5 — The great distress the Jews were in upon the conflagration of the holy house. Concerning a false prophet, and the signs that preceded this destruction

Chapter 6 — How the Romans carried their ensigns to the temple, and made joyful acclamations to Titus. The speech that Titus made to the Jews when they made supplication for mercy. What reply they made thereto; and how that reply moved Titus#34;s indignation against them

Chapter 7 — What afterward befell the seditious when they had done a great deal of mischief, and suffered many misfortunes; as also how Caesar became master of the upper city

Chapter 8 — How Caesar raised banks round about the upper city [Mount Zion] and when they were completed, gave orders that the machines should be brought. He then possessed himself of the whole city

Chapter 9 — What injunctions Caesar gave when he was come within the city. The number of the captives and of those that perished in the siege; as also concerning those that had escaped into the subterranean caverns, among whom were the tyrants Simon and John themselves

Chapter 10 — That whereas the city of Jerusalem had been five times taken formerly, this was the second time of its desolation. A brief account of its history