For Jewish history, the fullest account is provided by Schürer's Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu (fourth edition), which contains a thorough criticism of Josephus and the best general investigation into his sources. The work has been translated into English. Joel's Blicke in die Religionsgeschichte is suggestive upon certain aspects of the period.
Graetz, of course, deals with the events, and in the Stories of the
Nations Series (Putnam) there is a volume on The Jews under the
Romans by Hosmer, which is readable.
The opening chapters of Berliner's Die Juden in Rom, and of Vogelstein and Rieger's Geschichte der Juden in Rom (Berlin, 1895) are concerned with the relations of Jews and Romans in the first century; and a series of articles on the same subject by Hils, in the Revue des études juives (vols. viii and xi), is noteworthy. Anatole France has written two very vivid sketches of the Roman attitude to the Jews, which give a better impression of the inner conflict between the two peoples than any strictly historical work, "Gallion" in Sur la pierre blanche, and "Le Procurateur de Judée" in L'étui de nacre.
Among critical studies of Josephus as an historian the most striking works are:
Schlatter, Zur Topographie und Geschichte Palästinas (Stuttgart, 1893).
Bloch, Die Quellen des Flavius Josephus (Leipzig, 1879).
Nussbaum, Observationen in Flavius Josephus (Göttingen, 1875).
Destinon, Die Chronologie des Josephus (Kiel, 1880) and Die Quellen des Josephus (1882).
Büchler, A., Les Sources de Josèphe, R.E.J. xxii. and xxiv., and The
Sources of Josephus for the History of Syria, J.Q.R. ix.
Holscher, G., Die Quellen des Josephus, etc. (Leipzig, 1904).