The History of the Wars

Josephus essentially switches sides and becomes Roman lackey is what his detractors would say. But then at one point there's a scene where he ends up hold up in a cave with some other guys Some other holdouts, rebels. He appears to mean the probably mostly the Jewish diaspora but mostly focused on Persian empire and Parthian cultural dominance because of history of exile and captivity in Babylon in 6th century BC A lot of the guys didn't want to go back, and so the diaspora was already in effect.