Eve Harow speaks with Hughie Auman, who directed her tour guide course and was hugely instrumental in setting her on her current path. His fascination with the historian Josephus Flavius has brought him to new conclusions connected with the first century and the waning days of the Second Temple. Did the priest and army commander known in Hebrew as Yosef ben Matityahu leave us hidden clues as to why certain events occurred? Was there an oral tradition that preserved another version of the last stand at Masada against the Romans that rocked Judea so long ago? We must remember not to take history at face value but to search for context and never stop asking: "Why?”
