THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D. EDITED BY fT. E. PAGE, C.H., LITT.D. t E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. t W. H. D. ROUSE, litt.d. L. A. POST, M.A. E. H. WARMLNGTON, m.a., f.r.hist.soo. JOSEPHUS VII JOSEPH us F' ^^^TH an English translation by RALPH MARCUS, Ph.D. PROFESSOROFHELLENISTICCULTURE,UNIVERSITYOFCHICAQO IN NINE VOLL^IES JEWISH ANTIQUITIES, BOOKS XII-XIV LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD t \MBRIOGE, M.^SSACHUSKTrS IlAiUARD UNIVERSITY PRESS ilCilLVII HA Firstprinted1043 Reprinted 19j7 Printedin Great Britain CONTENTS OF VOLUiME VII ..... PAOK Prefatory Note vii THE JEWISH antiquities- Book XII 2 Book XIII 228 Book XIV 448 Appendix A. Ax Anxient Tari.e of Contents 704 Appendix B. The Date of the High Priest Simon the Just (the Righteous) 732 . . ..... Appendix C. The Early Seleucid Rulers AND the Jews 737 Appendix D. Antiochus III and the Jews {A?it. xii. 129-153) 743 Appendix E. Selected Literature on the Oniads and Tobiads and Palestine under PtolemaicRule(.4n<. xii. 154-236) . . 767 CONTENTS P\r.K Appendix F. Selected Literatvre on Spar- tans AND Jews (Ant. xii. 226-227 : \u\. 161- 170) 769 Appendix G. Selected Literature on the Background of the Maccabaean Revolt 770 . Appendix H. Selected Literature on the Sk- • LEUCID Era in 1 and 2 Maccabees and the Chronology of the Hasmonaean Period 772 Appendix L Selected Literature on Anti- ocHus Epiphanes and the Samaritans (Ant. xii. 257-261) 774 Appendix J. Selected Literature on the ....... Hellenistic and Roman Decrees in Axt. xii-xiv 775 Appendix K. Selected Literature on the Hasmonaeans in Rabbinic Tradition 778 . Appendix L. Selected Literature on the Status of Judaea under Roman Rule 63-37 n.c 780 ..... Appendix M. Selected Literature on Has- monaean Coinage 782 .... Abbreviations used in the Explanatory Notes and Appendices 783 vi