The Jewish War Series (Part 18): Titus Destroys the Temple
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...
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The Jewish War Series (Part 17): The Taking of the Tower of Antonia and Battles in the Temple Precincts
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...
The Jewish War Series (Part 16): The Famine Within the Walls Grows Worse
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 Jewish War Series (Part 15)–May 70 AD: Josephus’ Appeal and the Miseries to Which the Zealots Inflicted Upon the People
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...
The Jewish War Series (Part 14): May 70 AD–Titus Takes the First and Second Walls
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...
The Gnostics Are Coming! (Thomas Purifoy of “Is Genesis History” Accuses John Walton…of Gnosticism?)
Last month, I took part in an online debate regarding Noah’s flood: was it a worldwide flood, a local flood, or should Genesis 6-9 be understood as an example o...
The Jewish War Series (Part 13): Spring of AD 70–Titus and the Roman Legions Arrive at Jerusalem
The State of Jerusalem in the Spring of AD 70 During the winter of AD 69-70, the three factions of zealots in Jerusalem terrorized both each other and the civil...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 4): More Claims How the Jews Held Pagan Beliefs!
In my last post, I began to go through chapter 2 of Bart Ehrman’s book, How Jesus Became God. It is in chapter 2 that Ehrman attempts to argue that within Judai...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God?” (Part 3): Did Judaism View the Divine-Human Realms Pretty Much Like Paganism? (Spoiler Alert–No)
Bart Ehrman’s second chapter in his book, How Jesus Became God, is entitled, “Divine Humans in Ancient Israel.” Having spent his first chapter taking about paga...
The Jewish War Series (Part 11): The Idumeans’ and Zealots’ Reign of Terror in Jerusalem
With the Idumeans now in the city, they and the zealots began to unleash a reign of terror in Jerusalem. The first order of business for the Idumeans was to go ...