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15 Aug

Barry Strauss on the Jewish Conflict with Ancient Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion

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JL;DR SUMMARY Jonathan Silver hosts Barry Strauss to explore the Jewish revolts against Ancient Rome from 63 BCE to 136 CE, probing the interplay between these two civilizations and how their historical narratives diverge. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Tags

Roman Empire  Freedom  Judea  Josephus  Bar Kokhba  Jewish Revolts  Diaspora Revolt  Civilizational Conflict  Imperial Rome  Parthian Empire 

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"And it's a war that is broke out in 66 and culminated in the year 70 when the Romans conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the temple."
Masada, Jerusalem, Israel
"There were some mopping up operations, and it was either in 73 or 74, historians now incline more to 74, that the Romans snuffed out the last vestige of resistance at Masada."
Libya
"A new revolt broke out, centered not so much in Judea as in the Jewish communities of the Diaspora, hence the name, the Diaspora Revolt. And it broke out in eastern Libya, Egypt, spread to Cyprus."
Egypt
"A new revolt broke out, centered not so much in Judea as in the Jewish communities of the Diaspora, hence the name, the Diaspora Revolt. And it broke out in eastern Libya, Egypt, spread to Cyprus."
Cyprus
"A new revolt broke out, centered not so much in Judea as in the Jewish communities of the Diaspora, hence the name, the Diaspora Revolt. And it broke out in eastern Libya, Egypt, spread to Cyprus."
Iraq
"And at the same time, there was a rebellion in Iraq, ancient Mesopotamia, in which the Jewish population there played a big role against the Roman armies that had invaded this area."
En Gedi, Jerusalem, Israel
"The presence of a Jewish town called En Gedi taps into the natural beauty and significant history of Judea."
Baghdad, Saladin, Iraq
"So there are Jews who live across the Euphrates River to the east in another empire, in the Parthian Empire, as the Iranian Empire was known in this period, particularly to be found in southern Mesopotamia, around the area that nowadays is Baghdad."
Jotapata, Northern District, Israel
"He ends up being the defending general of the small Jewish city in Galilee in the summer of 67, a place called Jotapata."
Sepphoris, Northern District, Israel
"They use allies. In all of these efforts, they have allied troops. They're fighting alongside the Roman legions."
Gamla, Northern District, Israel
"there's a Jewish king of roughly Galilee and Golan, and he asks for help from the Romans in putting down a rebellion in the city of Gamla."
United Kingdom
"the governor of far-off Britain, which is a frontier province, a frontline province against the barbarians, and sends him to Judea to suppress the rebellion."

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