A New Punitive Tax on the Jews

Josephus

The Jewish War 7.218

ca. 75

He also imposed a tax on all Jews, wherever they lived, requiring them to pay two drachmas a head each year into the Capitol, the same contribution they had previously made to the temple at Jerusalem. So that was how things stood with the Jews at this date.

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Josephus

37–100

Flavius Josephus was born into a prominent Jewish priestly family and served as a general stationed in the Galilee during the First Jewish Revolt (66–73 CE). He was captured by the Romans and eventually integrated into the Flavian imperial aristocracy, who commissioned him to compose chronicles of the Jewish–Roman war and the history of the Jews. Josephus’ works, all written in Greek, include The Jewish War, Jewish Antiquities, Against Apion, and his autobiography, Life of Josephus. These writings provide important insights into the Judaisms of the Second Temple period and include one of the few surviving accounts of the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.

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