Scientific Date

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 …

Arts & Charts

Siege de Jerusalem (2015 French) Titus met donc le siège devant Jérusalem peu avant la Pâque 70. Il a avec lui quatre légions qu’il dispose d’abord sur les collines entourant Jérusalem, le mont Scopus et le mont des Oliviers.Continue reading“Siege …

Tisha B’Av

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

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

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 …

Mishnah

Mishnah Study Archive at the end of the second century CE, when Rabbi Judah the Patriarch was on good terms with the Roman imperial government, he published the Mishnah as a conscious effort to ignore and displace the memories of …

Midrash

Midrash Study Archive at the end of the second century CE, when Rabbi Judah the Patriarch was on good terms with the Roman imperial government, he published the Mishnah as a conscious effort to ignore and displace the memories of …

Jewish Sources Study Archive

Jewish Sources Study Archive In the case of Josephus we possess extensive works proceeding from the ripe experience of a stirring political and intellectual life, in sum a very considerable pile of literature, and that from the generation that marks …

Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Oxyrhynchus Papyri The result is an extraordinary and unique picture of everyday life in the Nile Valley between Alexander the Great in 300 BC and the Arab conquest a thousand years later.   Oxyrhynchus Papyri In 1897 two Oxford archaeologists …

Numismatics Study Archive

Numismatics Study Archive In 66 CE, while Nero was Emperor of Rome, the last Roman Procurator Florian was accused of stealing from the Temple. To mock him, protestors took up a collection of coins for the relief of the “poverty-stricken” Procurator.   Ancient Revelations …

Scrolls & Fragments

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

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

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 …

Dating of the Apocalypse

The Dating of the Apocalypse of John Study Archive those  persons were not immediately concerned with them, and the author would surely  not have said that they were blessed in reading prophecies of which the time  was at hand, if …

Book of Revelation Studies

William Behun: The Apocalypticism of Joachim of Fiore and the Western Mystery Tradition (2012) This page is not available on the web because of server error In so far as his interpretation takes the historical events of the first century …

The Fall Of Jerusalem

The Fall of Jerusalem By F.W. Farrar 1882 1882: F.W. Farrar, The Early Days of Christianity, V1 | V2 (PDF) 1883: F.W. Farrar, The Early Days of Christianity, in One Volume  (PDF) 1884: F.W. Farrar, The Early Days of Christianity, Popular Edition (PDF) “What was the cause of the destruction …

The Siege Of Jerusalem

Invicta Video: The Siege of Jerusalem (70 AD) – In Four Parts The Siege of Jerusalem stands out as one of the most brutal examples of Classical Era total war since the fall of Carthage over 200 years earlier! The …