Josephus

Flavius Josephus, a Jewish priest and Pharisee, was put in command of the national resistance in Galilee at the time of Israel's revolt against Rome. When he was captured at Jotapata; his life was spared upon his prediction to rival Vespasian, that the Roman general would soon become emperor. Upon the fulfillment of this prophecy shortly thereafter, he was commissioned to provide his captors with a history of the Jewish people, although he initially wrote a history of the Roman-Jewish war suited for both a Roman and a Jewish audience. His works, disputed though they may be regard accuracy, are an indispensable source on the life and history in Roman Judea.

Joesphus records the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Romans. It is this period that serves as the back drop of the Book of Revelation.

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JOSEPHUS ON THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE, THE FLAVIAN TRIUMPH AND THE FALL OF ROME by Paul Spilsbury

STORIES OF THE Wars of the Jews FROM THE BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY, TO THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS

THE JEWISH HISTORIAN FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS by Richard Laqueur

THE STORY OF THE LAST DAYS OF JERUSALEM FROM JOSEPHUS BY ALFRED CHURCH

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