Jonathan Davies completed his D.Phil at Oxford in 2017, as holder of the Littman-Vermes scholarship at Wolfson College. Since then, he has taught classics, ancient history, classical languages, and Jewish studies at Birkbeck College London, Oxford, Maynooth University, and Newcastle University.

• Acknowledgements Text and abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Political Expression in Flavian Rome 3: The Jewish War: Audience, Structure and Date 4: The Flavians in Jewish War 1-6 5: The Flavians in Jewish War 7 6: Conclusions Bibliography

This book offers an excellent, detailed analysis of all the references to the three Flavian emperors in Josephus's Jewish War. Davies consistently pays attention to Roman and Jewish perspectives and reads Josephus in line with postcolonial theory as a historian who is in between two worlds. His conclusions are well-argued and careful.

Jonathan Davies completed his D.Phil at Oxford in 2017, as holder of the Littman-Vermes scholarship at Wolfson College. Since then, he has taught classics, ancient history, classical languages, and Jewish studies at Birkbeck College London, Oxford, Maynooth University, and Newcastle University.

• Acknowledgements Text and abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Political Expression in Flavian Rome 3: The Jewish War: Audience, Structure and Date 4: The Flavians in Jewish War 1-6 5: The Flavians in Jewish War 7 6: Conclusions Bibliography

This book offers an excellent, detailed analysis of all the references to the three Flavian emperors in Josephus's Jewish War. Davies consistently pays attention to Roman and Jewish perspectives and reads Josephus in line with postcolonial theory as a historian who is in between two worlds. His conclusions are well-argued and careful.

Jonathan Davies completed his D.Phil at Oxford in 2017, as holder of the Littman-Vermes scholarship at Wolfson College. Since then, he has taught classics, ancient history, classical languages, and Jewish studies at Birkbeck College London, Oxford, Maynooth University, and Newcastle University.

• Acknowledgements Text and abbreviations 1: Introduction 2: Political Expression in Flavian Rome 3: The Jewish War: Audience, Structure and Date 4: The Flavians in Jewish War 1-6 5: The Flavians in Jewish War 7 6: Conclusions Bibliography

This book offers an excellent, detailed analysis of all the references to the three Flavian emperors in Josephus's Jewish War. Davies consistently pays attention to Roman and Jewish perspectives and reads Josephus in line with postcolonial theory as a historian who is in between two worlds. His conclusions are well-argued and careful.