A historical look at the Churban and its aftermath in the context of Jews vs. Rome.
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[Music] Hi everyone, welcome to another edition of the Farm Chatter podcast. On this episode of the podcast, I'm going to be joined by Professor Barry Strauss, who is Corus Page Dean, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Bryce and Edith M. Bulmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University and a leading expert on ancient military history and the author of a number of books. But for this episode, we'll be discussing his fourthcoming book which is coming out in a few weeks which is titled Jews versus Rome two centuries of Jacobitz Newmani LLP. Okay. So, tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your backgrounds. >> So, I'm a historian specialty in military history and history of the ancient world. Uh, for most of my career, I've taught at Cornell University, uh, where I had many wonderful years teaching there. And recently I moved to the west coast where I am now lucky enough to be a senior fellow uh at the Hoover Institution, the Corus Page Dean Senior Fellow. Um and um I love history. Uh I love its its stories. I love the way it speaks to us in the present. I love the way the present echoes the past and and is often foreshadowed in the past. So I just really enjoy talking talking about it, researching it, hunting for for the facts. >> Yeah. And it's something that's, you know, your specific interest seems to be Roman history. Many books that you've written, the death of Caesar, 10 Caesars, um, Spartacus War, Masses of Command, reading of some of your titles that are listed on the back of your book. And so, how did you become interested in Roman history? >> So, um, I I I am interested in Roman history. I've mostly published Roman
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