Episode 86 Enter Vespasian and Exit Josephus

The unity implied by the coins of Jewish Jerusalem is belied by the fracturing inside the city. 

In the "Year of Four Emperors," a great sage receives an audience with Vespasian and serves as the link between destruction and redemption.

A holiday in 70 CE predicts both Jerusalem's destruction and its restoration. 

In the story of Jerusalem's fall, there is a villain who must not be forgotten.