When was jerusalem destroyed

Historian Josephus claimed that Titus wanted to preserve the temple, but his soldiers were so angry at their resilient opponents that they burned it. The remaining Jews were slaughtered or sold as slaves.

The Zealot band that took Masada held it for at least three more years. When the Romans finally built their siege ramp and invaded the mountain fortress, they found the defenders dead—they had committed suicide to avoid being captured by foreigners. The Jewish Revolt marked the end of the Jewish state until modern times. The first destruction of the temple, by the Babylonians in B. They adjusted, of course, creating new rituals for home and synagogue. But the Sanhedrin was dissolved, and the center of Jewish religion moved to the educational institutions of Jamnia.

Where were the Christians? Out of town, basically. Many had been driven out of Jerusalem by persecution decades earlier. Eusebius wrote that when the revolt began, in A. Missionaries like Paul had originally dealt with a strong and conservative Jewish church, based in Jerusalem. After A. The fall of Jerusalem, then, made the Christians even more distinct from the Jews and impelled the church to develop among the Gentiles.

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I think that is pretty well known. But adding a source for it won't hurt. Added a link to an article that supports B. Links have a tendency to break. It would be better if you added the quote in directly. Some books says B. Is this because one don't know?

See rcyoung. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Wikipedia - Siege of Jerusalem All of the contemporary records, whether Hebrew or otherwise, rely on regnal dating systems. Religious or Secular Year? Accession or Non-Accession? By accession counting in the religious year Jan - Dec : 6 Feb - 31 Dec was her accession year.

By accession counting in the secular year Jul - Jun : 6 Feb - 30 Jun was her accession year. By non-accession counting in the religious year Jan - Dec : 6 Feb - 31 Dec was her first year.

By non-accession counting in the secular year Jul - Jun : 6 Feb - 30 Jun was her first year. Confused Yet? Improve this answer. Paul Rowe Paul Rowe 1, 8 8 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. I'm confused - but impressed! According to our present calendar and the most widely accepted chronology the year was Furuli: Oslo, This work relies quite heavily on many quite 'original' observations, conclusions and cherry picking of evidence.

It was reviewed as: Once again we have an amateur who wants to rewrite scholarship. DOI An argument that rests entirely on word for word literal truth of every passage in the bible is a very weak one. And this tablet is egregiously misdated by JW-adherents and Furuli. Now Jeremiah to appears to be a summary from Babylonian sources because verse 28 speaks of taking captive in Neb's 7th year cf 2 Kings , the Jewish dating method and the Babylonian Chronicle BM , Grayston's ABC5 also speaks of this event happening in Neb's 7th year : [Rev.

Andrew Shanks Andrew Shanks 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. The rant on Jehovah's Witnesses is unnecessary - especially when it takes up a third of your post. Pieter Geerkens - OK I will reconsider. I did wonder myself. Pieter Geerkens - I've changed it — Andrew Shanks.

Pieter Geerkens - Though I 'm not sure it was a "rant" - You prob. Maybe you think "if any religion is right then it would be the JW's". Maybe someone you know was a JW who you liked and others were against her. I am not against JWs, I am very heavily for them. PieterGeerkens But JW are taking up half of the question!

If you want to include JW, then the history of this flexibility for harmagedon prognosis might be interesting? Brandon Brandon 1. David David 1 1 1 bronze badge. Hi David and welcome to History SE. Academic and non-biblical sources would improve your answer. OK Lars. I do understand that this early siege of Jerusalem has been difficult to support with non-biblical sources. Rey Kabrom Rey Kabrom I have no idea whether the data given in this answer is correct, but engaging with it and refuting it would be a lot more scholarly than attacking the fellow for being an amateur or "rather naive.

Meir Better than what? I quoted a scholar that's also a critic of the most prominent proponent of this theory, which is in this answer presented too unritically, giving a link to that source in a journal. That's not an attack, not by me, and not me 'attacking' the author of this post.

The conclusion is not 'Rey's a this or that' I gave the other author's name in brackets , the conclusion is that the tablet is not supporting what the theory shown here claims it to be.

Four different Bible writers say the Jews were in captivity 70 years: Jeremiah ; Daniel ; 2 Chronicles ; Zechariah CsBalazsHungary 6, 4 4 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 59 59 bronze badges. No visitor to Jerusalem can escape hearing references to the First Temple and the Second Temple, which refer to historical time periods when two different massive Jewish temples stood approximately where Al Aqsa Mosque is now located.

Both temples were destroyed, and the main remnant is the outer western wall of the Second Temple courtyard, where people flock from all over the world to pray known as the Wailing Wall, the Kotel, or the Western Wall. According to Jewish traditions, both temples were destroyed on the 9th of Av on the Jewish calendar.

There are scant remains of the temple on the south hill of the City of David.