Josephus's works include more than 300 letters; embedded letters feature prominently in the Herod narratives (War 1 and Antiquities 15-17) and the Life, where Josephus cites 62 letters from
Agrippa II to assert the truth of his report of the war between Rome and the Jews.
24) Two years later Josephus has
Agrippa II plead against a Jewish revolt in a speech detailing Rome's military might: a fleet of forty warships had pacified an unnavigable and wild sea, where once the hostile coastal tribes marauded.
Josephus writes in his histories that work on the Temple Mount was completed by King
Agrippa II, a great-grandson of Herod.
As the Apostle Paul on trial before the Jewish King
Agrippa II and the Roman procurator Festus declared, "this was not done in a corner" (Acts 26:26).
He proposes a complex ensemble that includes on the west side a rider, identifiable as Herod
Agrippa II, as well as figures in chariots drawn by lions and panthers, and on the east side Athena and another deity on a chariot drawn by lions and flanked by captives.
The plan and decoration of the Si' 8 monument are well integrated into a group of sanctuaries in southern Syria, many among them dated roughly to the reign of
Agrippa II (c.
