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The Jewish War : Revised Edition
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The Jewish War : Revised Edition Paperback - 1984

by Josephus, Flavius, Radice, Betty

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  • Title The Jewish War : Revised Edition
  • Author Josephus, Flavius, Radice, Betty
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
  • Date 1984-02-07
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP34621583
  • ISBN 9780140444209 / 0140444203
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.87 x 5.01 x 0.86 in (19.99 x 12.73 x 2.18 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - History - Rebellion, 66-73, Jews - History - 168 B.C.-135 A.D
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84238701
  • Dewey Decimal Code 933.05

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G.A. Williamson was born in 1895 and was a Classical Exhibitioner at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with a First Class Honours degree. He was Senior Classics Master at Norwich School from 1922 to 1960. He also translated Josephus: The Jewish War (1959) and Procopius: The Secret History (1966) for the Penguin Classics. He died in 1982.
G.A. Williamson was born in 1895 and was a Classical Exhibitioner at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with a First Class Honours degree. He was Senior Classics Master at Norwich School from 1922 to 1960. He also translated Josephus: The Jewish War (1959) and Procopius: The Secret History (1966) for the Penguin Classics. He died in 1982.
Betty Radice read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livy’s The War with Hannibal she translated Livy’s Rome and Italy, Pliny’s Letters, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise and Erasmus’s Praise of Folly, and also wrote the introduction to Horace’s Complete Odes and Epodes, all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbon’s Memoirs of My Life for the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Pliny’s works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference Book Who’s Who in the Ancient World. Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association. Betty Radice died in 1985.

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THE war of the Jews against the Romans was the greatest of our time; greater too, perhaps, than any recorded struggle whether between cities or nations.

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About the author

Josephus was born in 37 AD. He was one of the Jewish leaders at the time of the revolt of the Jews in the reign of Nero. His two most important works are The Jewish War and The Jewish Antiquities.

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