| Works by Flavius Josephus - The Wars of the Jews |
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The history of the destruction of Jerusalem from the taking of the city by Antiochus Epiphanes, how the Temple was pillaged, as also concerning the actions of the Maccabees and the death of Judas until the entire destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, excepting three towers How the people that were in the fortress of Masada were prevailed on by the words of Eleazar, two women and five children only excepted and all submittes to be killed by one another. About the many of the Sicarii fled to Alexandria and what dangers they were in there; on which account that Temple which had formally been built by Onias the High Priest was destroyed, and concerning Jonathan, one of the Sicarii that stirred up a sedition in Cyrene and was a false accuser of the innocent.
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