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I appreciated reading Josephus many years ago. One story that I found compelling and astonishing was his account of Miriam of Bethezob [The Jewish War, 6: 210-11]. I draw attention to it in my book on Miriam of Nazareth. I wonder what you think of the story. I find it somewhat serendipitous that at the same time as there was a civil war in Judea and destruction of the Temple, Rome was also experiencing a civil war and the Temple of Jupiter was destroyed. [Tacitus Annales quoted in Greenlaugh, The Year of the Four Emperors]. Right now it appears that in both Israel and the USA [the new Rome] democracy is under siege.

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