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Jerusalem Sacked
A.D. 70
I told you...this has been proven to be untrue. Plus I said way back that even if you want to take Josephus off the table, there are numerous other sources and I have listed many of them.....deliberately listing those that are non-Christian and have no vested interest in saying Jesus lived.
Also you seem to be forgetting that there was a seige in Jerusalem in AD 70 so we are lucky to even have the records that we do have...
The future Emperor Titus snuffed out a four-year Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in A.D. 70. The rebellion had started when Roman rulers tried to place Roman gods in Jewish religious places—an action considered a desecration and an abomination. Titus' legions destroyed most of Jerusalem and killed tens of thousands of Jews—the Arch of Titus still stands in Rome to commemorate the Roman victory.King Herod the Great's Second Temple of Jerusalem was among the many structures to fall in the conflict, though its destruction may have been accidental. Today the Western, or Wailing, Wall is all that remains of this legendary site. The Temple's remains are sacred to Jews and form part of Islam's Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque. The ruin thus serves as a sometimes contentious touchstone for two faiths.
The crushing defeat of the A.D.-66-to-70 and subsequent A.D.-132-to-135 Jewish revolts may have helped to create a schism between Judaism and the burgeoning Christian faith. Some scholars believe that early Christian identity was solidified by the desire of its followers to differentiate themselves from Jewish leader Simon Bar Kokhba, who claimed that he was the true Messiah, instead of Jesus.
The crushing defeat of the A.D.-66-to-70 and subsequent A.D.-132-to-135 Jewish revolts may have helped to create a schism between Judaism and the burgeoning Christian faith. Some scholars believe that early Christian identity was solidified by the desire of its followers to differentiate themselves from Jewish leader Simon Bar Kokhba, who claimed that he was the true Messiah, instead of Jesus.
Here is a recent discovery and more will unfold as time goes on.
Colosseum 'built with loot from sack of Jerusalem temple'
By Bruce Johnston in Rome
12:00AM BST 15 Jun 2001
THE Colosseum, the huge Roman amphitheatre used for animal shows and gladiatorial combat, was built with the spoils of the sack of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, a new archaeological find suggests.
A recently deciphered inscription was made public yesterday as organisers prepared for an exhibition on the monument, opening next week. A feature of the show is a large, altar-like stone with a chiselled Latin inscription, which tells how a senator, Lampaudius, had the Colosseum restored in AD 443.
But holes still visible in the surface clearly corresponded to different lettering, this time in bronze, which had been previously fitted into the stone. After a long study, Prof Geza Alfoldy of Heidelberg University, working with Italian archaeologists, deciphered the puzzle. He concluding that the original inscription read: "Imp. T. Caes. Vespasianus Aug. Amphitheatrum Novum Ex Manubis Fieri Iussit."
The translation is: "The Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus had this new amphitheatre erected with the spoils of war. There is no doubt what war this was, the sack of Jerusalem," said Cinzia Conti, the director of surface restoration at the Colosseum, yesterday.
The sack of Jerusalem occurred in Vespasian's reign in AD 70, when a revolt by the Jews was crushed and Jerusalem was captured by Titus. The temple was destroyed and a million people were said to have died in the siege. The Arch of Titus, at the end of the Roman Forum nearest to the Colosseum, commemorates the victory, and bas-reliefs show Roman soldiers making off with booty from the temple.
Two years after the sack of Jerusalem, in AD 72, work on the Colosseum, officially known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, began.
Ms Conti said the Emperor Titus inaugurated the Colosseum in AD 80 with 100 days of festivities, but his father, Vespasian, had first opened it in AD 79, shortly before he died, when it was still unfinished. The original bronze lettering on the stone altar would have been made for the original opening.
By Bruce Johnston in Rome
12:00AM BST 15 Jun 2001
THE Colosseum, the huge Roman amphitheatre used for animal shows and gladiatorial combat, was built with the spoils of the sack of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, a new archaeological find suggests.
A recently deciphered inscription was made public yesterday as organisers prepared for an exhibition on the monument, opening next week. A feature of the show is a large, altar-like stone with a chiselled Latin inscription, which tells how a senator, Lampaudius, had the Colosseum restored in AD 443.
But holes still visible in the surface clearly corresponded to different lettering, this time in bronze, which had been previously fitted into the stone. After a long study, Prof Geza Alfoldy of Heidelberg University, working with Italian archaeologists, deciphered the puzzle. He concluding that the original inscription read: "Imp. T. Caes. Vespasianus Aug. Amphitheatrum Novum Ex Manubis Fieri Iussit."
The translation is: "The Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus had this new amphitheatre erected with the spoils of war. There is no doubt what war this was, the sack of Jerusalem," said Cinzia Conti, the director of surface restoration at the Colosseum, yesterday.
The sack of Jerusalem occurred in Vespasian's reign in AD 70, when a revolt by the Jews was crushed and Jerusalem was captured by Titus. The temple was destroyed and a million people were said to have died in the siege. The Arch of Titus, at the end of the Roman Forum nearest to the Colosseum, commemorates the victory, and bas-reliefs show Roman soldiers making off with booty from the temple.
Two years after the sack of Jerusalem, in AD 72, work on the Colosseum, officially known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, began.
Ms Conti said the Emperor Titus inaugurated the Colosseum in AD 80 with 100 days of festivities, but his father, Vespasian, had first opened it in AD 79, shortly before he died, when it was still unfinished. The original bronze lettering on the stone altar would have been made for the original opening.
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