Rethinking the Jewish War: Archeology, Society, Traditions

This interdisciplinary collection of fifteen papers probes key aspects
of the First Jewish Revolt from a wide variety of perspectives:
archeology, Roman military, administration, and ethos, Second Temple
Jewish society, and rabbinic and early Christian reception. Delivered at
a large international conference organized at the École biblique et
archéologique française de Jérusalem in 2018, the contributions respond
to many classic questions about the reliability of Josephus and interact
in various ways with Steve Mason’s major study, A History of the
Jewish War (Cambridge, 2016), including his controversial views on
the scope and religious nature of the conflict. Mason’s own response
comprises the final chapter.