Episode 84 The Revolt

Jewish rebels channel the story of Hanukkah by winning a battle in the same place Judah the Maccabee once did. 

What the historian's surrender in the Galilee reveals about his much debated character.

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.