Publisher's Synopsis
This newest and unique edition of The Jewish War, Carta's Illustrated The Jewish War introduced by R. Stephen Notley, handsomely augments Whiston's English translation of Josephus' eyewitness account with state-of-the-art maps, pictures, and illustrations that bring clarity and new life to this gripping story of the final days of the Second Temple, as the reader is guided from the arrival of Antiochus Epiphanes to the fall of Masada.
Features:
- 40 maps illustrating the events recorded by Josephus referenced to the latest scholarly research (The Carta Bible Atlas, The Sacred Bridge: Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World, and more);
- 175 illustrations of sites, archaeological finds, landscapes, artifacts, and artist's renditions;
- Easy, color-coded name search for: Persons (e.g., Vespasian); Places (e.g., Jerusalem); Loeb references (e.g., 48).
