Hello!
Here is my interpretation of how the Great Jewish Revolt could have gone differently, and the resulting ramifications that change history.
This is both my first Timeline and my first post here, but don’t worry, I’ve been lurking for a long time.
I’ll post every day except Saturdays till I run out of the considerable backlog that I have accumulated over the summer.
I would really appreciate feedback, especially that nitpicky sort that stems from exhaustive knowledge, because this timeline is the ‘official history' of a novel that I am writing for my Honors Humanities Keystone project. (My advisor enthusiastically supported me posting on this site.) As a result, it’s starting from the beginning of the war, and has a lot of plain old OTL in the beginning. Hopefully, it’ll still be an enjoyable read.
My sources are:
Apocalypse: The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome AD 66-73 by Neil Faulkner
The Rise and Fall of the Judean State by Solomon Zeitlin
The Jewish Revolts Against Rome, A.D. 66-135- A Military Analysis by James J. Bloom
The Ruling Class of Judea, by Martin Goodman
Jerusalem Under Siege by Jonathan J. Price
Josephus Homepage by Gary Goldberg
JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh
And of course: The Jewish War, by Flavius Josephus.
Without further ado, the preamble: