In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, I discuss Jerusalem's place in the classical world with Professor Simon Goldhill, author of "Jerusalem: City of Longing" and "The Temple of Jerusalem."

Chapters:
0:00 Thinking about Jerusalem
2:38 Alexander the Great
4:51 Seleucids and Maccabees
7:35 Jerusalem as setting and fiction
9:40 Roman perspectives on the Jews
15:41 Herod's Temple as a Roman building
20:00 Roman culture and the Jewish elite
23:15 Remembering the Temple
27:54 The Bar Kokhba Revolt
30:21 Christian Jerusalem
33:15 Julian and the Temple
34:30 The place of Judaism in the Classics