Description

Years covered: 67-70

Perhaps the most momentous event in all of Jewish history: the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Vespasian meets Yochanan Ben Zakkai, and spares him, and consequentially, the Pharisees. He then has to take his place in the drama known as 'The year of Four Emperors', leaving Judea to his son Titus.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

The Jews:

• Josephus
• Herod Agrippa II
• Berenice
• Shimon ben Gamliel
• Hanania (former High Priest) x
• Joshua ben Gamla x
• Joseph ben Gurion x
• John of Gischala (John son of Levi)
• Simon bar Giora
• Eleazar son of Simon
• Phineas son of Samuel
• Tiberius Julius Alexander
• Marta bat Baitos x
• Yochanan ben Zakkai

The Romans:

• Vespasian
• Titus
• Nero x
• Servius Galba x
• Gaius Julius Vindex x
• Lucius Verginius Rufus
• Lucius Licinianus x
• Otho x
• Vitellius x
• Gaius Licinius Mucianus
• Marcus Antonius Primus

Other

• Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes 

Sources:

Josephus - War of The Jews

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 55b–58a

Suetonius - The Lives of Caesars

Tacitus - The Histories

Sulpicius Severus - Chronicle 3.20

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