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Book 12 deals with the period after Alexander’s death (323 BCE) up to the death of Judas (161 BCE), the leader of the Maccabean Revolt against Antiochus IV and V. Books 13 and 14 cover the later Hasmonean rulers as well as the take-over by Herod the Great, who manages to capture Jerusalem only three years after his appointment as king of Judaea by the Roman Senate in 40 BCE. Books 15–17 offer a very detailed report about Herod’s rule and the expansion of his kingdom, based on material from Herod’s aide Nicolaus of Damascus, as well as a less extensive section on Archelaus, Herod’s successor in Judaea (4 BCE–6 CE; AJ 17.200–355). Books 18–20 combine Jewish and Roman history; book 18 covers the period from Archelaus’s deposal to the death of Gaius Caligula. It includes famous passages on John the Baptist (18.116–119) and Jesus Christ, the so-called Testimonium Flavianum (see also 20.200–203 about the execution of Jesus’s brother James; Carleton Paget 2001; Whealey 2003). Book 19 deals with the reign of King Agrippa I (41–44 CE), the scheming that ultimately led to the murder of Gaius Caligula (Wiseman 1991), and the election of Claudius as new emperor. Book 20 concerns the period from the death of Agrippa I to the outbreak of the war against Rome in 66 CE, partly paralleled in War 2 (cf. AJ 20.100–258 with BJ 2.220–284). It includes an elaborate section on the conversion to Judaism of the royal house of Adiabene (20.17–96; further discussion: Bilde 1988: 80–104).