Allow me to begin this post with a brief re-telling of Genesis 2-3… A Truncated Telling of Genesis 2-3 As God was showing the man around the garden, He pointed ...
A couple of months ago, Andy Walsh contacted me and asked if I would do a book review of his upcoming book, Faith Across the Multiverse: Parables from Modern Sc...
On the 20th day of Ab (mid-late August) Titus ordered his army to raise the banks further against the upper city, on the west side of the city over against the ...
The lower city had been largely taken earlier. The Temple Mount was now in Roman hands, and the Temple itself had been burned to the ground. All throughout the ...
Every day the zealots, although holed up within the inner court of the Temple, fought off the Roman soldiers who were at the gates and on the banks. Then, on th...
By the first day of Tamuz (mid-July), the stench of death and pestilence filled the city. It was then that the zealots fully came to realize that there was no h...
Although the Roman siege continued to take its toll on those inside Jerusalem, Titus began to look for ways to hasten its end. And so, he decided to tighten the...
The ever-present creation/evolution debate, along with the intense debate regarding the proper interpretation of Genesis 1-11, is not going away anytime soon. O...
After taking the second wall and pushing the zealots back deeper into the upper city and the temple complex, Titus relaxed the siege for a short time, to see if...
When Titus had come to Jerusalem, he encountered a city that had been effectively under siege by the two remaining zealot leaders long before he had arrived. Si...