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Ep. 44: Jerusalem: A History of the Holy City from the Bible to Bibi

The Jewish History Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

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The Bar-Kach-Pah Coinage

The Romans were steered to face them in open warfare, and they managed to liberate Jerusalem. After the revolt is stifled, Hadrian goes out of his way to de-duify the city. He renames Judea, Palestinian, after the ancient group of the Philistines that Samson was warring 800 years prior. And using Jewish slave labor, he plows the mountain, lowers it from its height and builds upon it a temple for the pagan god Jupiter.

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