Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Required reading

.The historical accounts by Josephus Flavius are required reading for anyone with any interest in 1st century Judaea, and the William Whiston translation is as good as it gets.Then we get to the tricky business of how much of his history is absolute fact, and how much was Roman political propaganda (Josephus' patron was Emperor Vespasian). For a exhaustive insight into Josephus' motivation and political viewpoint, please see "King Jesus" and "Jesus, King of Edessa". These two books indicate that Josephus placed a large Roman spin on the history of Judaea, and covered up some of the key events and characters, by giving them humorous hypocorisms.Jesus, King of EdessaandKing Jesus: From Egypt (Kam) to Camelot