Way Behind: Jewish War 1.1-186

Way behind, but I've read the first 186 of War 1.

Mostly boring--so and so attacked so and so. Then so and so attacked so and so. Josephus is also often wrong in his reconstruction, at least when you compare him to 1 Maccabees, which is almost 200 years earlier. Mostly on the Maccabees.

Of interest are his comments on Judah the Essene (1.78-80), on the Pharisees (1.110-12), and on Pompey's entrance into the Holy of Holies (1.152).

Mention of soul (1.84) and he supports Paul's Arabia as the Nabatean kingdom with Petra as capital.