Category: JERUSALEM DESTROYED

Scientific Date for Destruction of Herod’s Temple in AD70 Harvard House 2001 Josephus, a secular Jewish historian, witnessed the temple’s destruction and observed the temple’s burning occurred on the 10th day of the 5th Jewish month. Josephus also noted that …

Tisha B’Av Study Archive On the “ninth of Ab” it was decreed concerning our fathers, that they should not enter into the land (of Canaan), the first and second temple were destroyed,  Tisha B’av may have been our 9/11, but …

Targums Study Archive The word “targum” refers to translations of the Bible into Jewish Aramaic. In the post-exilic period, Aramaic began to be widely spoken in the Jewish community alongside the native language, Hebrew. Eventually Aramaic replaced Hebrew for most …

Talmud and Historians Study Archive You look at something like the story in the Talmud about the destruction of Jerusalem, about Kamtso and Bar Kamtso. Ultimately it turned on a piece of khnoykishkayt [hypocritical sanctimoniousness]   JEWISH SOURCES: Talmud and Historians …

Kittim as Rome Study Archive The next line, however, begins, “Its interpretation concerns the Kittim….” The modern theory had already been propounded by interpretation by the ancient community two thousand years earlier! Dead Sea Scrolls Study Archive Habakkuk 1:6 “For, behold, …

Revelation Late Date Study Archive For (‘he’ [John?] or ‘it’ [Revelation?]) was seen  not long ago, but almost in our own generation, at the end of the reign of Domitian   Date of John’s Apocalypse Late Date Advocates PRETERISM AND THE DATE OF REVELATION SYSTEMATIC …

Revelation Early Date Study Archive The chief obstacle to the acceptance of the true date of the Apocalypse, arises from the authority of heaven.   Date of John’s Apocalypse Early Date Advocates PRETERISM AND THE DATE OF REVELATION SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES …