Years covered: 136-161

There is no Temple, the Rabbis are fugitives, circumcision is illegal and the dead bodies of the Jews of Judea haven't even been buried yet. So Jews do what they've always done: start a school, and start again.

Jews

• Judah Hanasi (born during the Bar Kochba revolt)
• Shimon Ben Gamliel II (Judah's father, the Nasi at Usha)
• Judah Bar Ilai
• Rabbi Meir
• Beruria
• Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
• Elazar ben Shimon (son of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai)
• Rabbi Jose Ben Halafta
• Elazar Ben Shamua
• Rabbi Natan
• Elisha Ben Abuya
• Hanania Ben Ahi Rav Yehoshua
• Trypho

Greeks

• Justin Martyr (Greek philosopher born in Judea, Christian apologist)
• Marcion of Sinope (from the Greek city of Sinope; died ~160)

Romans

• Hadrian x
• Lucius Aelius Commodus x
• Antoninus Pius x
• Marcus Aurelius
• Lucius Verus
• Suetonius

Sources

Babylonian Talmud (Bavli)

Berakhot 57b, 63a–b

Shabbat 33b, 49b, 118b 9.

Pesachim 118a

Chagigah 15b

Horayot 13b

Avodah Zarah 10a–11a, 18a–b ,44b 15.

Sanhedrin 14a, 39a, 91a–b

Kiddushin 71a, 72b

Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi)

Berakhot 3:1

Yoma 3:7

Pesachim 4:1

Chagigah 2:1

Sanhedrin 1:2

Nedarim 6:8 (

Midrash

Bereshit Rabbah

Vayikra Rabbah

Bamidbar Rabbah

Tanchuma Tazria

Shir HaShirim Rabbah

Eichah Rabbah

Greek and Syriac works

Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho

Suetonius, 12 Caesars

Irenaeus, Against Heresies

Epiphanius, Panarion

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Years Covered: 130-136

We end the season with the hopes of a messiah ending in bloodshed and expulsion. This is the end of Jews in Judea, for a long time.

• Simon bar Kosiba (Bar Kokhba) x
• Rabbi Akiva x
• Babatha bat Shimon x
• Judah (husband of Babatha) x
• Elazar (High Priest of the revolt) x
• Shimon ben Gamliel II
• Rabbi Tarfon x
• Judah bar Ilai
• Jose the Galilean
• Bruriah
• Rabbi Meir
• Shimon bar Yochai
• Jose ben Halafta
• Elazar ben Shamua
• Judah ben Bava x

• Hadrian x
• Tinius Rufus
• Julius Severus
• Gargilius Antiquus

• Justin Martyr

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Years Covered: 100-130

What are the ways of the Jews without a temple? The sages of Yavne will try to answer this question as the Jewish people try to find their place in a Greco-Roman world that's getting rather heavy on the Greco.

Cast of Characters:

• Simon bar Kosiba (Bar Kokhba)
• Gamliel II x
• Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah
• Rabbi Akiva
• Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
• Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah
• Rabbi Tarfon
• Shimon bar Yochai
• Yohanan ben Zakkai x
• Imma Shalom
• Rachel
• Lukuas (Andreas) x
• Papus x
• Lulyanus x
• Aquila of Sinope

• Trajan x
• Hadrian
• Pliny the Youngerx
• Quintus Marcius Turbo
• Lucius Quietus x
• Vespasian x
• Titus x

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Years covered: 70-100

What happened to all the people who survived the destruction of the temple? We take a look at their lives.

• Flavius Josephus
• Simon bar Giora x
• John of Gischala
• Berenice
• Herod Agrippa II x
• Tiberius Julius Alexander
• Julius Antiochus Epiphanes
• Epiphanes of Commagene
• Mariamne
• Demetrius the Alabarch
• Eleazar ben Yair x
• Menahem x
• Judas the Galilean x
• Shimon ben Gamliel x
• Yohanan ben Zakkai x
• Gamliel I x
• Gamliel (son of Shimon ben Gamliel)
• Rabbi Yishmael x
• Hyrcanus
• Justus
• Agrippa (son of Josephus)
• Jonathan (the Zealot) x

• Titus x
• Vespasian x
• Flavius Silva
• Domitian x
• Nerva x
• Antonius Felix
• Nero x
• Caligula x

• Drusilla
• Agrippa (nephew of Berenice) x
• Apion x
• Philo of Alexandria x

If you want, I can also tighten this further (e.g., only characters with speaking or narrative agency) or normalize it into a production-ready dramatis personae for the episode notes.

tighten to people that wer alive between 68-100

Below is a tightened, names-only list, limited to people who were alive at some point between 68–100 CE.

An “x” marks those who died within that window.

• Flavius Josephus x
• Simon bar Giora x
• John of Gischala
• Berenice
• Herod Agrippa II x
• Tiberius Julius Alexander
• Julius Antiochus Epiphanes
• Epiphanes of Commagene x
• Demetrius the Alabarch
• Eleazar ben Yair x
• Shimon ben Gamliel x
• Yohanan ben Zakkai x
• Gamliel (son of Shimon ben Gamliel)
• Rabbi Yishmael x
• Jonathan (the Zealot) x

• Titus x
• Vespasian x
• Flavius Silva
• Domitian x
• Nerva x
• Antonius Felix
• Nero x

• Drusilla
• Agrippa (nephew of Berenice) x
• Apion x

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Years covered: 67-70

Perhaps the most momentous event in all of Jewish history: the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Vespasian meets Yochanan Ben Zakkai, and spares him, and consequentially, the Pharisees. He then has to take his place in the drama known as 'The year of Four Emperors', leaving Judea to his son Titus.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

The Jews:

• Josephus
• Herod Agrippa II
• Berenice
• Shimon ben Gamliel
• Hanania (former High Priest) x
• Joshua ben Gamla x
• Joseph ben Gurion x
• John of Gischala (John son of Levi)
• Simon bar Giora
• Eleazar son of Simon
• Phineas son of Samuel
• Tiberius Julius Alexander
• Marta bat Baitos x
• Yochanan ben Zakkai

The Romans:

• Vespasian
• Titus
• Nero x
• Servius Galba x
• Gaius Julius Vindex x
• Lucius Verginius Rufus
• Lucius Licinianus x
• Otho x
• Vitellius x
• Gaius Licinius Mucianus
• Marcus Antonius Primus

Other

• Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes

Sources:

Josephus - War of The Jews

Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 55b–58a

Suetonius - The Lives of Caesars

Tacitus - The Histories

Sulpicius Severus - Chronicle 3.20

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