c. AD 77

J. BJ 2.266

The Wars of the Jews 2.266

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

The Wars of the Jews

2.266

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

2667. There was also another disturbance at Caesarea:—those Jews who were mixed with the Syrians that lived there, raising a tumult against them. The Jews pretended that the city was theirs, and said that he who built it was a Jew, meaning king Herod. The Syrians confessed also that its builder was a Jew; but they still said, however, that the city was a Grecian city; for that he who set up statues and temples in it could not design it for Jews.