Jerusalem - Roman Rule, History, Holy City: For some time Rome had been expanding its authority in Asia, and in 63 bce the Roman triumvir Pompey the Great captured Jerusalem. A clash with Jewish nationalism was averted for a while by the political skill
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Other sources researched by Laurence Gardner indicate that the Arc of the Covenant had been hidden beneath Solomon's Temple at the time of King Josiah (597 BC) so as not to be seized by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians. In hisMishneh Torahof 1180, the Spanish philosopher Moses Maimondes t...
Three years later, he drove out the Syrian garrison of Acra, razed the fortress, and even leveled the hill on which it had stood—a gigantic undertaking which occupied the entire population for three years (Antiq. Jud., XVIII, vi, 6; Bell. Jud., V, iv, 1). Demetrius II and after ...
It is true, however, that these visitors saw and understood little of the real life of Arab and Jewish Jerusalem and, as explained above, I have worked hard to show the actual lives of the indigenous population. But this book is not a polemic and the historian of Jerusalem must show the...
He estimated the Jewish population at 2,000 souls. The city had eight gates, the walls having been built 100 years before his time. He describes at length the city and its monuments, especially the western wall where the Jews were allowed to congregate in times of peace. He speaks of ...
St. Stephen's gate and the golden gate (now walled up), in the east wall; The Damascus gate and Herod's gate, in the north wall; and The Jaffa gate, in the west wall. Population. --Taking the area of the city enclosed by the two old walls at 750,000 yards, and that enclosed...
(probablyabout 10 to 15 per cent of the population), even though this con-gregation is highlyautonomous and hence could be treated asaseparate de-Although the Bible in its entirety was onlytranslatedto Faroesevery recentlyinhistory,therehave been olderFaroese written documents with stories and...
^b whereon no man ever sat; loose him, { ^a them, } ^b and bring him. { ^a them } unto me. [Numerous Scripture references show that the ass was held in high estimation in the East. The sons of the judges used them, and David's mule was used at the coronation of Solomon (...
Egypt and Lebanon, who were backed in weaponry and finances by Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Sudan, and Algeria. Her impossible victory still cost the nation twice as many men “as the United States lost in eight years of fighting in Vietnam” in proportion to total population.(Jewish Virtual...