Also relevant to the duty of self-disclosure is my longtime interest in Jewish-Roman relations in Palestine from the time of Pompey’s arrival in Jerusalem circa 63 B.C. until the fall of Masada in about A.D. 74, based mainly on Josephus’s documentation of this period. I have visited Israel and Jordan a number of times and can speak to how the text-based accounts of Jew-Roman relationships of that era and the rise of Christianity within it are readily imaginable. The now-unearthed Pool of Siloam and