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Great Slaughters And Sacrilege: Josephus & the Course of Empire

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The War of the Jews

I've seen these tours of these major holy sites and it's kind of amazing Probably like the height of people talk about how bad, I mean, I don't have any love for things like the UN or whatever you call the sort of world order right now But regardless, all these holy sites have like perfect, they've perfectly partitioned them out So that a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew could all go this holy site and nobody can see each other And everybody can have fun and do what they need to do. It's kind of incredible The offspring of Abraham can be quite cross them A lot of sibling rivalry and cousin rivalry going on there Yeah, and you kind of get it started

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Speaker 1
Have you been to Jerusalem? I never have, no. I never
Speaker 3
have. I haven't either, but if you look at on, I've seen these tours of these major holy sites and it's kind of amazing Probably like the height of people talk about how bad, I mean, I don't have any love for things like the UN or whatever you call the sort of world order right now But regardless, all these holy sites have like perfect, they've perfectly partitioned them out So like some of them, like it'll have like you can go to this holy site and look at it And they've sort of done cutaways and put sort of, you know, walls here and there So that a Muslim, a Christian and a Jew could all go this holy site and nobody can see each other And everybody can have fun and do what they need to do I don't know, it's kind of incredible The offspring of Abraham can be quite cross them A lot
Speaker 1
of sibling rivalry and cousin rivalry going on there
Speaker 2
Yeah, and you kind of get it started Our friend here assigned us some reading Josephus is the war of the Jews And I tell you the war, sorry, I tell you, I read the history of the Peloponnesian War in high school And that is a longer book than this, I think
Speaker 1
And it was
Speaker 2
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