86:1
Famine reaches a point where ordinary human bonds are overturned.
86:2
A mother, remembered in Josephus tradition as Miryam daughter of Eleazar, kills and eats part of her own infant.
86:3
Rebels recoil when they discover the act, and news reaches the Romans.
86:4
The episode functions as the chronicle’s most terrible sign that siege, faction, and hunger have destroyed the normal order of life.