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Rome and the Jews: Josephus on ‘Freedom’ and ‘Autonomy’ Get access

DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ
in Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World
Published: 10 October 2002
...In Ant. 14. 77, speaking of the Roman conquest and dismemberment of the Hasmonean state in 63 bce, Josephus complains that ‘we lost our freedom and became subject to the Romans’. That is, eleutheria and Roman rule are incompatible. Three books later...