To: Darksheare
"We know there was a Temple.
We know the Romans burned it down."
As I recall the FIRST Temple was destroyed about 786BC by The Caldeans (Persians). The Second Temple was built 70 years later the remains of which are visible in the wailing wall. could someone verivy?
7 posted on
01/13/2003 11:47:35 AM PST by
yeetch!
To: BibChr
Curious?
8 posted on
01/13/2003 11:52:57 AM PST by
Dataman
To: yeetch!
As I recall the FIRST Temple was destroyed about 786BC by The Caldeans (Persians). The Second Temple was built 70 years later the remains of which are visible in the wailing wall. could someone verivy? The first temple was completed by King Solomon around 960 B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. After the Babylonian Captivity, the second temple was built, under Zerubbabel's leadership, and dedicated in 516 B.C. That temple was renovated and expanded by Herod the Great, starting around 20 B.C. The temple was destroyed finally by the Romans, under Genreal Titus, in A.D. 70. It has never been rebuilt. All that remains are some stones visible in the Western ("Wailing") Wall.
To: yeetch!
A.D. 70, the burning of the Temple of Herod.
Built by Herod the Great to appease his new subjects.
The Arch of Titus commemorates this.
I'm surprised at how many people don't know this.
11 posted on
01/13/2003 12:21:43 PM PST by
Darksheare
("The 72 virgins are HAMSTERS!!")
To: yeetch!
And AD 70 still predates the Muslims by quite a few years, last I knew.
12 posted on
01/13/2003 12:22:28 PM PST by
Darksheare
("The 72 virgins are HAMSTERS!!")
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