On the Ruin of the City of Jerusalem

De excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae

Written about 370 to 375; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

A free Latin retelling in five books of the Jewish War of Josephus, which reads the fall of Jerusalem as God's judgment.

History · first written in Latin

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: V. Ussani, CSEL 66 (1932-1960); A. A. Bell, in Josephus, Judaism and Christianity (1987) (about 370-375); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Hegesippus
Place written not known: No source names a place; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Hegesippus