Hello, welcome to the Ancient Warfare magazine podcast. I'm Angus Wallace.

In this episode, we'll be looking at Volume 8, Issue 5, Rebellion Against the Empire, the Jewish Roman Wars.

Joining me to discuss the topic is Joshua Bowers, Lindsay Powell, Mark McCaffrey and Joseph Hall.

Before we look at the three wars, I wonder if someone could give us some background to the region

and Rome's control over it.

Perhaps goes back to the Maccabin Rebellion in about 167, I think.

167.

The Jews revolt against the Salisid rulers

and found an independent Jewish state,

the Hasmanian state.

But in having a state of their own,

now the Jews have something tangible to defend

and to fight for.

And so we see quite a large outgrowth

from that of Jewish nationalism.

I'd say the next thing to do with Rome anyway was in 63 BC when Pompey the Great

bought the region into the Roman sphere of influence, but Rome given the region via the

Hasmanian rulers who they kept in place.

The Roman civil wars, I think, which ended in Octavian's victory,

this also impacted the local politics of Judea.

But the outcome was that Roman stole Herod as the sole ruler.

After Herod's death in 4 BC, his son Archelaus took over Judea, but he was even more unpopular

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