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Cameron and Ray discuss the fall of Jerusalem and the linguistic coincidence between the Roman god Jove and the Hebrew God Yahweh.

On this episode, Cameron and Ray wrap up the fall of Jerusalem in September 70 CE — Titus strolls into the ruins, declares Yahweh helped him destroy Yahweh's own temple, and the boys go deep on the genuinely wild linguistic coincidence that the Roman sky-god Jove and the Hebrew God share the same name. Then it's grim accounting time: survivors get sorted into gladiators, mine slaves, and beast-fodder, Josephus rescues some mates, and rebel leader Simon Bar-Gioras emerges from a tunnel dressed in a white robe trying to pass himself off as a ghost. Plus Cameron's AI fact-checker contradicts itself mid-episode, Ray declines to answer questions about his Michael Jackson glove, and somehow it all makes sense. The post YHWH v JOVE – Vespasian #19 appeared first on Life Of The Caesars .

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