 Jews can, and historically have, accepted Rome's hegemony precisely because their faith declares that God himself gives empires their power.The next work by Josephus is his twenty-one volume "Antiquities of the Jews", completed during the last year of the reign of the Emperor Flavius Domitian, around 93 or 94 CE.In expounding Jewish history, law and custom, he is entering into many philosophical debates current in Rome at that time.