The Roman Judea material is exciting because it deals with real-life concrete space and a period of ultimate crisis in the history of the Jews. There’s been no period of crisis like the first century when the Temple was destroyed and the Jews lost their national control, lost the area of Jerusalem, were really manhandled or persecuted all over the Roman Empire for a very intense period.

Prof. Steven Fine, Yeshiva University, Produced by Down Low Pictures for COJS