3.6 The Great Revolt II: A Civil War within a Rebellion

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Great Revolt of 66 AD/CE began as a protest against Rome's failure to protect the Judeans from their ancient foes. The Judeans proved to be effective fighters, easily dispatching the initial Roman response. The Romans withdrew and regrouped. That gave Judea seven months to prepare for Roman retaliation. During that interlude, Judea instead erupted into a vicious civil war. Judean militias and warlords attacked and betrayed each other. They acted as though the Romans were the least of their problems. They murdered countless numbers of their countrymen in Jerusalem, and starved the rest. The Great Revolt ended up as a self-inflicted catastrophe.

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0:00.0	Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.
0:09.9	And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:15.2	In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they were sent
0:23.9	spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history, about all of the books
0:31.7	beyond the Bible.
0:45.2	Episode 3.6, The Great Revolt Part 2, A Civil War Within a Rebellion.
0:52.8	In the last episode, I discussed the situation in the area south of the province of Syria,
0:56.1	on the verge of the Great Revolt in the year 66.
1:05.3	All the ethnicities in the area, Syrians, Judeans, Greeks, Ijumians, Nabatians, Samaritans, were keen to maintain their rights and security against the others.
1:10.5	All dreaded ethnic violence, and all looked to Rome to defend them.
1:16.6	Since the time that Pompey had brought Roman might to the region, over a century before,
1:22.6	the Judeans had embraced their role as policemen for the Romans, and savored Jerusalem as the Roman seat of power.
1:31.6	Rome was their protector, not their oppressor.
1:35.4	Judean opinion changed after Rome moved the seat of government from the Judean city of Jerusalem
1:42.6	to the Greek city of Caesarea Maritima on the
1:46.0	Mediterranean coast in Samaria. The Romans enlisted Greeks, Arabs and Samaritans as a police
1:54.0	force to maintain the peace. The Judeans panicked. Josephus identifies the spark that set Judea on fire, an argument over a synagogue.
2:07.6	The month was May, the late spring of 66.
2:12.3	Quote,
2:13.7	Now at this time, it happened that the Greeks at Caesarea had been too hard for the Judeans
2:20.7	and had obtained of Nero the government of the city.
2:25.7	Now, the Judeans that dwelt at Caesarea had a synagogue, whose owner was a certain Greek.
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