Josephus
Titus Flavius Josephus was an ethnic Hebrew man, a soldier, a husband many, many times as well as a historian. Because he was a historian he was able to attain knowledge pertaining to different sects in Judaism. This ability allowed him to choose to be a Pharisee. His opinion may have been that he was against the war between the Romans and Jews but it did not change the fact that he became the commander of Galilee. In essence, he fought the Romans between the years of 66 A.D and 73 A.D as not only a commander but as a leader. Given this fight and Jews’ determination, thousands of people were still killed after being invaded by the Romans after the Jewish garrison of Yodfat’s fate was put into the Roman’s hands. After Galilee broke down, people of Jerusalem were not left with many options. They could have either surrendered to the Romans or committed suicide.
Josephus did not commit suicide, but instead he opted to surrender to the Romans by bringing in his intelligence to their table in 67 A.D. When he decided to surrender to the Romans, the Romans took notice and admired him greatly. The general of Vespasian of Rome admired him so much that he took his name “Flavius” as his own. He informed the Romans about certain Although he called himself Josephus, people came to call him Titus Flavius. Even though Josephus’ life was in shambles during the war due to the fact that his wife and family ceased to exist when the Romans invaded Galilee, Vespasian compensated for that by arranging him to marry a captured woman in Rome. It seemed like it was going to go well, but when that wife left him in 70 A.D he married again with a Jewish lady and it resulted in three male children, but only of his children managed to survive. Soon he left this wife and five years later married a more respectable women who managed to have two more sons for him that survived.
Throughout Josephus’ life he had created many works of writings which made...
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