Josephus: Jewish antiquities (Books XII-XIV) [7]

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,

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JOSEPHUS VII

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an English translation by

RALPH MARCUS,

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PROFESSOR OF HELLENISTIC CULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAQO

IN NINE VOLL^IES

JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, BOOKS XII-XIV

LONDON

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CONTENTS OF VOLUiME

VII

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Prefatory Note

PAOK vii

THE JEWISH antiquitiesBook XII

2

Book XIII

228

Book XIV

448

Appendix A.

Ax Anxient

Appendix

The Date

B.

Tari.e of Contents

of the High Priest

Simon the Just (the Righteous)

Appendix C.

{A?it. xii.

Appendix E.

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732

The Early Seleucid Rulers

AND the Jews

Appendix D.

704

Antiochus

III

737

and the Jews 743

129-153)

Selected Literature on the

Oniads and Tobiads and Palestine under Ptolemaic Rule

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granted it and as evidence of the king's munificence thev " decided to preserve a copy of the decree, which " All the slaves whom those servinor was as follows in our father's army took captive after invading Syria and Phoenicia and subduing Judaea, and brought to our cities and our country and sold them, and those slaves who were formerly in my kingdom and any who have recently been imported all these their owners shall set free and receive a hundred and twenty drachmas ^ for each slave, the soldiers to get this redemption money together -with their wages, For I believe the others from the king's exchequer. that it was contrary to my father's intention and to what is right that they were made captives, and that their countrA* was ravaged through the army's lack of discipline, and also that from their removal to Egypt the soldiers have greatly benefited. Having regard, ;

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