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JOSEPHUS·ANTIQUITIES·BOOK 17

Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17

13 CHAPTERS · 61 SECTIONS

  1. 17.1How Antipater Was Hated By All The Nation [Of The Jews] For The Slaughter Of His Brethren; And How, For That Reason He Got Into Peculiar Favor With His Friends At Rome, By Giving Them Many Presents; As He Did Also With Saturninus, The President Of Syria And The Governors Who Were Under Him; And Concerning Herod's Wives And Children.
  2. 17.2Concerning Zamaris, The Babylonian Jew; Concerning The Plots Laid By Antipater Against His Father; And Somewhat About The Pharisees.
  3. 17.3Concerning The Enmity Between Herod And Pheroras; How Herod Sent Antipater To Cæsar; And Of The Death Of Pheroras.
  4. 17.4Pheroras's Wife Is Accused By His Freedmen, As Guilty Of Poisoning Him; And How Herod, Upon Examining; Of The Matter By Torture Found The Poison; But So That It Had Been Prepared For Himself By His Son Antipater; And Upon An Inquiry By Torture He Discovered The Dangerous Designs Of Antipater.
  5. 17.5Antipater's Navigation From Rome To His Father; And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus Of Damascus And Condemned To Die By His Father, And By Quintilius Varus, Who Was Then President Of Syria; And How He Was Then Bound Till Cæsar Should Be Informed Of His Cause.
  6. 17.6Concerning The Disease That Herod Fell Into And The Sedition Which The Jews Raised Thereupon; With The Punishment Of The Seditious.
  7. 17.7Herod Has Thoughts Of Killing Himself With His Own Hand; And A Little Afterwards He Orders Antipater To Be Slain.
  8. 17.8Concerning Herod's Death, And Testament, And Burial.
  9. 17.9How The People Raised A Sedition Against Archelaus, And How He Sailed To Rome.
  10. 17.10A Sedition Against Sabinus; And How Varus Brought The Authors Of It To Punishment.
  11. 17.11An Embassage To Cæsar; And How Cæsar Confirmed Herod's Testament.
  12. 17.12Concerning A Spurious Alexander.
  13. 17.13How Archelaus Upon A Second Accusation, Was Banished To Vienna.

The Works of Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston (1737). Public domain. Text prepared from the Project Gutenberg transcriptions, ebooks 2848, 2850, 2849 and 2846.