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Bilde 1988 and Rajak 2002 offer excellent and readable introductions to Josephus and his four works and Chapman and Rodgers 2016 includes detailed discussions of many topics connected with Josephus and the content and reception of his works. For the history of the first Jewish revolt against Rome (66–73/74 CE), which is the main topic of Josephus’s War, see especially the articles in Popovic 2011 and the excellent fresh interpretation of the events in Mason 2016a. Goodman 1994, Mason 2003b, 2005, Price 2005, Tuval 2013, and Den Hollander 2014 discuss the importance of Josephus’s Roman context for his audience, and his aims. For Josephus’s handling of geographic information, see especially Shahar 2004 and Van Henten and Huitink 2012. An overall study of Diaspora Judaism as presented by Josephus is still missing; see for Babylonia and the Parthian Empire Neusner 1969 and Goodblatt 2012 and for the legal position of the Jews in the eastern part of the Roman Empire Pucci Ben Zeev 1998. Hackl et al. 2003 offer useful translations of and brief comments on Josephus’s passages about the Nabataeans.