Take the Menorah ( Episode 43, Season 7)

Take the Menorah ( Episode 43, Season 7)

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Rob Cain interviews Steven Fine, historian of Judaism in the Greco-Roman World. Dr. Fine is professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University in New York, director of the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration project and of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies. Visit Professor Fine's webpage: http://yeshiva.academia.edu/StevenFine/About

Included on the show is a discussion of Josephus the historian, Masada, the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration project, and myths and stories of the location of the Menorah looted by the Romans.

Matthew Leigh Embleton continues his lecture Series on Opium in the Ancient world.

http://www.matthewleighembleton.co.uk/

Jon White, from the UK, provides us a dramatic narration of the opening of the 70s novel The Antagonists / Masada.

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