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Jews vs. Rome: Barry Strauss & Erich Gruen in Conversation

Date
Wed November 12th 2025, 11:30am - 12:50pm
Event Sponsor
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Location
Building 380, Math Corner
450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 380, Stanford, CA 94305
380X

What new claims can be made about the Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire? How do new archaeological insights shape debates between scholars?

 

Join Barry Strauss, historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, in conversation with Erich Gruen, Emeritus History faculty at UC Berkeley, for a discussion about Strauss’s new book Jews vs. Rome. Moderated by Charlotte Fonrobert.

This event is in conjunction with Charlotte Fonrobert and Vered Shemtov's course "Texts that Changed the World from the Ancient Middle East."

Co-sponsored with Stanford’s Israel Studies Program at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

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