WARS OF THE JEWS or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem

Flavius Josephus served on both sides of the Jewish - Roman War - first as a Jewish commander in Galilee, then as an adviser to the Roman general Titus - and that dual vantage shapes every page of this account.

Wars of the Jews traces the escalating rebellions in first-century Judea, the factional violence that tore Jerusalem apart from within, and the Roman siege that ended with the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD.

Josephus writes as an eyewitness: he records troop movements, diplomatic failures, famine, and the psychology of communities caught between imperial force and internal division.

The result is one of the earliest sustained narratives of how religious conflict, political miscalculation, and siege warfare converge to devastate a people and their most sacred institution.