Description

Years Covered: 44-66 AD

We chart Jospehus' formative years, which track the steady decline of relations between Rome and Judea, as Rome plunges into debt and civil war, and Judea into anarchy and rule by organized crime. It all culminates in an attack on Masada, and refusal to sacrifice to the health of the Roman Emperor.

Cast of Characters

Jews

• Herod Agrippa IIx
• Herod of Chalcis x
• Berenice
• Drusilla
• Queen Helene of Adiabene x
• Izates II x
• Ananias of Adiabene (merchant)
• Elazar of Galilee
• Alexander Lysimachus
• Tiberius Julius Alexander
• Jonathan the High Priest x
• Hanania ben Nadvai x
• Flavius Josephus
• Banus
• Zechariah ben Avkolas
• Kamtza
• Menahem son of Judah
• Salome
• Aristobulus of Chalcis
• James the Just x
• Paul of Tarsus x
• Alytrios
• Princess Symacho

Romans

• Emperor Claudius x
• Gaius Marsus
• Cuspius Fadus
• Ventidius Cumanus
• Marcus Antonius Felix
• Porcius Festus
• Lucceius Albinus
• Gessius Florus
• Cestius Gallus
• Nero
• Poppaea Sabina 
• Agrippina the Younger x
• Pallas
• Otho
• Sporus

Sources:

War of the Jews - Josephus

Antiquities of the Jews - Josephus

The Book of Acts

The Lives of the Ceasars - Seutonius

The Annals - Tacitus

Talmud Bavli Gittin 55b–56a

Talmud Bavli Sukkah 2b

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