Dr. Guy Maclean Rogers

Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, I tell my students all the time that most of the ancient history that I teach is fascinating and interesting, especially to ancient historians, but it's kind of all over.

Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, I tell my students all the time that most of the ancient history that I teach is fascinating and interesting, especially to ancient historians, but it's kind of all over.

Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, I tell my students all the time that most of the ancient history that I teach is fascinating and interesting, especially to ancient historians, but it's kind of all over.

It doesn't really matter to most of my students who won the Peloponnesian War, but the revolt against Rome in 66 and its outcome with the destruction of the temple and then kind of the progressive... deterioration in relations between Romans and Jews and Jews and Christians unfortunately has resonances right down to the present and

It doesn't really matter to most of my students who won the Peloponnesian War, but the revolt against Rome in 66 and its outcome with the destruction of the temple and then kind of the progressive... deterioration in relations between Romans and Jews and Jews and Christians unfortunately has resonances right down to the present and

It doesn't really matter to most of my students who won the Peloponnesian War, but the revolt against Rome in 66 and its outcome with the destruction of the temple and then kind of the progressive... deterioration in relations between Romans and Jews and Jews and Christians unfortunately has resonances right down to the present and

Actually, although I wrote the book back in 2020, 21, the events of the last year to year and a half have only kind of heightened that sense that this is history that isn't over. It's living history. So yeah, it's still present in the minds of tens of millions of people.

Actually, although I wrote the book back in 2020, 21, the events of the last year to year and a half have only kind of heightened that sense that this is history that isn't over. It's living history. So yeah, it's still present in the minds of tens of millions of people.

Actually, although I wrote the book back in 2020, 21, the events of the last year to year and a half have only kind of heightened that sense that this is history that isn't over. It's living history. So yeah, it's still present in the minds of tens of millions of people.

So obviously, the main source for the war itself is a narrative written by a very interesting and brilliant writer called Josephus, Labius Josephus, after he acquired Roman citizenship. His works are a little bit tricky because...

So obviously, the main source for the war itself is a narrative written by a very interesting and brilliant writer called Josephus, Labius Josephus, after he acquired Roman citizenship. His works are a little bit tricky because...

So obviously, the main source for the war itself is a narrative written by a very interesting and brilliant writer called Josephus, Labius Josephus, after he acquired Roman citizenship. His works are a little bit tricky because...

He, in fact, wrote an original version of it, apparently in Aramaic, which was kind of the sister language of Hebrew, and sent that version to his countrymen across the Euphrates River relatively soon after the war was completed in 73 or 74. We don't have that. When Josephus went to Rome with Titus, he wrote a Greek version of it, which was finished around 79 CE.

He, in fact, wrote an original version of it, apparently in Aramaic, which was kind of the sister language of Hebrew, and sent that version to his countrymen across the Euphrates River relatively soon after the war was completed in 73 or 74. We don't have that. When Josephus went to Rome with Titus, he wrote a Greek version of it, which was finished around 79 CE.

He, in fact, wrote an original version of it, apparently in Aramaic, which was kind of the sister language of Hebrew, and sent that version to his countrymen across the Euphrates River relatively soon after the war was completed in 73 or 74. We don't have that. When Josephus went to Rome with Titus, he wrote a Greek version of it, which was finished around 79 CE.

And that's the basic narrative account. Like a lot of people who have engagement with major historical events, Josephus decided afterward that he needed to write a a much longer book about his people. And so in the 80s and early 90s, he wrote this monstrously large history of the Jewish people, which is usually called the Antiquities, but in fact was called in Greek the Archaeologica.

And that's the basic narrative account. Like a lot of people who have engagement with major historical events, Josephus decided afterward that he needed to write a a much longer book about his people. And so in the 80s and early 90s, he wrote this monstrously large history of the Jewish people, which is usually called the Antiquities, but in fact was called in Greek the Archaeologica.

And that's the basic narrative account. Like a lot of people who have engagement with major historical events, Josephus decided afterward that he needed to write a a much longer book about his people. And so in the 80s and early 90s, he wrote this monstrously large history of the Jewish people, which is usually called the Antiquities, but in fact was called in Greek the Archaeologica.

And there's a section of it which deals a second time with the revolt. And toward the end of that, he decided that he needed to do what a lot of people, a lot of American generals do anyway, to write his life story, which was made as a kind of an addendum to the antiquities. And one of the tricky parts of reconstructing what really happened is that

And there's a section of it which deals a second time with the revolt. And toward the end of that, he decided that he needed to do what a lot of people, a lot of American generals do anyway, to write his life story, which was made as a kind of an addendum to the antiquities. And one of the tricky parts of reconstructing what really happened is that