It was a remote backwater of the world's most powerful empire, but in 66 AD Palestine took center stage, and the drama that unfolded paved the way for the rise of Christianity and the re-invention of Judaism.
For a hundred years, the Holy Land had chafed at the bit of Roman rule, but the governor of Jerusalem set the flame to the tinder with an ill-advised speech. 66 AD: THE LAST REVOLT reveals how the seeds of revolution had been sewn, and explores what happened once the spark was struck. Featuring fascinating interviews with experts like Walter Zanger, the author of Jerusalem, and Shaye Cohen of Brown University, it follows the uprising from its origins in the teachings of men like Jesus Christ to the destruction of the Holy Temple.
Join us for the war that changed the world -- 66 AD: The Last Revolt.
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Since the days of King David, the Jewish people have claimed the rocky hillsides of Judea as their Promised Land. And no structure better symbolized that covenant than the majestic Holy Temple on Jerusalem's sacred mountain.
Six hundred years after its construction, the Temple was the scene of an unlikely battle for freedom, as Jews fought impossible odds to repel legions of Roman soldiers. Of all of the peoples of the Near East, why did the Jews alone dare challenge the greatest imperial power the world had ever known? Why was Rome determined to prevail at any cost? And what happened to the sacred Temple when the siege finally broke through Jerusalem's walls?
Join the world's leading archeologists and scholars as they unravel the riddles of the Holy Temple -and the great Jewish revolt that destroyed it.
