{"podcast":{"title":"Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time","slug":"everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216","podcast_index_feed_id":7523216,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/592205/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/592205","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/f/8/7/ff873758313fc23fd959afa2a1bf1c87/everythingJewishSquare14001400.jpg","author":"Adam Diament","episode_count":300,"summary":"Welcome to \"Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time!\" The podcast that makes exploring Jewish ideas easy, fun, and inviting. Whether you're Jewish, a little Jew-curious, or simply love learning new things, these bite-sized episodes will give you history, literature, theology, traditions, and cultural gems in just about ten minutes. Think of it as your friendly guide to all things Jewish, without the long sermons or heavy textbooks.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T16:17:06.262858+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216"},"episode":{"title":"Josephus in 10 Minutes","slug":"josephus-in-10-minutes","published_at":"2026-05-16T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216/josephus-in-10-minutes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216","url":"https://bb99e661-a60f-4303-be1a-5fc7b99e64c4.libsyn.com/josephus-in-10-minutes","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bb99e661-a60f-4303-be1a-5fc7b99e64c4/josephus.mp3?dest-id=5146315","summary":"Explore the controversial legacy of Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Mattityahu, c. 37 CE), the Jewish priest and aristocrat who became the primary, yet problematic, source for the dramatic destruction of the Second Temple. Appointed a general in the Jewish revolt against Rome, he famously surrendered after the siege of Yodfat and, by predicting that Vespasian would become Emperor, saved his own life and became a favored Roman advisor. . Writing his seminal works, The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews , under Roman patronage, Josephus offered a vast, Hellenized history of his people to a Greco-Roman audience, providing invaluable accounts of sects like the Pharisees and Essenes, but forever earning the complex reputation of a traitor among many of his own people for siding with the very empire that razed Jerusalem.","meta_description":"Explore the controversial legacy of Flavius Josephus (born Yosef ben Mattityahu, c. 37 CE), the Jewish priest and aristocrat who became the primary, yet p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":585,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216/episodes/josephus-in-10-minutes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-jewish-10-minutes-at-a-time-7523216/josephus-in-10-minutes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}