Josephus: The Historian and the Bandit By Brent Shaw

https://www.academia.edu/165288318/Josephus_The_Historian_and_the_Bandit?email_work_card=title Bandits and banditry provide critical barometric readings for the nature of state power. For the whole range of Graeco-Roman antiquity, the historian Josephus offers us the single most continuous and coherent historical narrative that might reveal some of the conceptual apparatus with which this type of power was seen at the time. ...