War for Heaven: The First Jewish-Roman War, 66-74 CE

In the summer of 66 CE, a young Temple official in Jerusalem persuaded the priests at the altar to stop performing a sacrifice on behalf of the Roman Emperor. That act of defiance — the withdrawal of the daily offering that had been the symbol of Jewish accommodation with Roman power — ignited one of the most catastrophic conflicts of the ancient world. The First Jewish–Roman War lasted seven year...