Jewish History - Romans & Revolt (63 BCE - 135 CE) (8a of 20 sessions)

The window of Jewish political self-determination opened by the Maccabees was slammed shut by the Roman Empire. Some Jews, like King Herod the Great, prospered in cooperation with Rome. Others challenged Roman authority and were destroyed. The wreckage they left, however, would be the building blocks of the Judaism of the Rabbis. Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean for North America of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, concludes his study of Ancient Jewish History with this session.
See the other videos in this series at • Introduction to Jewish... .
The recommended reading in Rabbi Sherwin Wine's A Provocative People: A Secular History of the Jews for this session is pp170-192. Available in print and e-book - more information at iishj.org/publ....

[@sparks2749]

Very well done! You're well spoken and the maps very helpful,... please do more! It would be great if this was required listening for all Christian churches. On another subject, the guy in the upper right corner, taking a nap.... LOL! I would like very much to be in on these talks,... fascinating subject!

[@WickedFelina]

FYI, I am just answering the question posed near the very end of the video. "Founding documents" there are more extra biblical (Christian Bible) documented attestations of Jesus Christ than anyone of that time period. There is a list of Roman and Greek historians who mention him. Far more than even I realized. Any credible historian admits today, that Jesus was a historical figure, and was crucified. That is attested by Atheist historians. The Church put December 25th as Jesus's birth not because they knew (they admitted that no one knew) when he was born, but because it was the time when light came back into the world. No need to add or assume. We have documentation by the Church (as they wrote everything down) that is the case. Enjoying the talks BTW very much. I am learning as much as possible about Judaism since my parents both passed. Finding out, at the end of their lives, was obvious all along. Thank you for your time.

[@iamthenews5624]

Didn’t Herod built the second temple?

[@IISHJvid]

Herod the Great greatly expanded the Second Temple in the last century BCE, but he was expanding something that had initially been built centuries before.

[@iamthenews5624]

I just do not understand why Jesus became a thing at this time specifically…

[@iamthenews5624]

Herod was the last Roman Emperor before christianity entered the chat 🧐

[@rursus8354]

It starts very good with flailing the British imperialist attitude of the Monty Python parody, but then it fails miserably by describing the Romans like people that came with Pax Romana, supporting the big business, etc.. I have an idea what that comes from: the Pharisees were upper class priviliged people, not communist Zealots. The Zealots went extinct at the Great Jewish Rebellion, while the Pharisees, with their pseudo-radicalism, spoke against rebellion, since they weren't the oppressed ones living in poverty because of the Roman exploitation. The lower class went extinct, so it is safe to forget them ...