If you walk into the Roman Forum today, on any given morning of any given month, and stand at the eastern end where the Via Sacra rises out of the ancient market square toward the Palatine Hill, you will see a single small triumphal arch. Built around eighty-one A.D. by the Emperor Domitian to commemorate his brother Titus. On its inner south panel, carved in stone still visible after nineteen centuries, is a procession of Roman legionaries carrying a menorah, a table of showbread, and a set of silver trumpets away from Jerusalem.

That is the Second Temple, being carried into Rome, on the shoulders of the soldiers who burned it.

Episode Eight walks the sixty years after the Temple came down. Not the war itself — that is behind us. This is what came out of it.

Inside this episode:

- Judea Capta — the Fiscus Judaicus tax, the commemorative coins circulated across the empire, the Colosseum built ex manubiis, from the spoils of war
- Aelia Capitolina and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135 AD) — Simon Bar Kosiba, Rabbi Akiva, Hadrian's counter-offensive, Cassius Dio's appalling numbers, the second and greater catastrophe
- Yavneh and the birth of rabbinic Judaism — Yohanan ben Zakkai's coffin escape revisited, Rabban Gamaliel II, Rabbi Akiva, the Mishnah codified at Sepphoris around 200 AD by Judah ha-Nasi
- The Christian side of the aftermath — the astonishing fact that Peter, Paul, both apostles named James, were already dead before the Temple burned
- The four new Christian centres: Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, Ephesus
- The Jewish Christian remnant — Symeon son of Clopas, the Ebionites, the Nazarenes, and the closing of Jewish presence in Aelia Capitolina after 135
- The Apostolic Fathers generation — Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna, Justin Martyr
- Modern parallel: how crises reshape the church — Diocletianic persecution, Islamic conquests, English Reformation, French Revolution, twentieth-century communism, the Chinese underground church, the fastest-growing Christian community in the world today in Iran

Sources cited on-air: Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews Books 18–20 (Whiston); Suetonius, Life of Vespasian* and Life of Domitian; Cassius Dio, Roman History Books 66–69; Eusebius of Caesarea, *Ecclesiastical History* Books 3 and 4; Epiphanius, Panarion; the Mishnah, particularly tractate Avot; the Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 56 and Berakhot 28; the letters of Ignatius of Antioch; First Clement; the Didache; Justin Martyr, First Apology and Dialogue with Trypho; Martin Goodman, Rome and Jerusalem (Allen Lane, 2007); Peter Schäfer, The Jewish Jesus*(Princeton University Press, 2012).

"For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." — Romans 11:29, KJV.

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"Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." — Revelation 2:10, KJV.*

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