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Flavius Josephus warrants a brief character sketch, as he will
often contribute to our research. Josephus was nobly born in Galilee as a
descendant of the Hasmonaean-Maccabees. He was educated as a Priest
of the Temple and became the revolutionary Governor of Galilee in the
Zealot uprising of 66CE. He commanded nationalist guerrilla forces
against the troops of Vespasian. The Romans captured him. However, in
front of General Vespasian he announced that Vespasian was the messiah
the Jews awaited and that both Vespasian and his son Titus would become
emperors of Rome. After Vespasian became emperor in 69CE,
conveniently proving Josephus a sage, Vespasian appointed Josephus part
of his entourage. Vespasian also gave Josephus an apartment in the
imperial palace and bestowed the citizenship of Rome on him. Josephus’
chronicle, The Jewish War, provides our only detailed account of the
Zealot uprising in 66CE and the fall of Massada. 32
Josephus gives a date for the commencement of King Solomon’s
Temple of 1060BCE, some one thousand one hundred years before his
own time. He does this by nominating the period from the laying of the
foundation stone of the First Temple to the destruction of the Third
Temple by Titus in 70CE as one thousand one hundred and thirty years,
seven months and fifteen days. 33 He then goes on to describe the terrible
destruction of the Third Temple in graphic detail: 34
While the Sanctuary was burning, looting went on right and left
and all who were caught were put to the sword. Such were the height of
the hill and the vastness of the blazing edifice that the entire city seemed
to be on fire, while as for the noise, nothing could be imagined more
shattering or horrifying. There was the war-cry of the Roman legions as
they converged, the yells of the partisans encircled with fire and sword…
Yet more terrible than the din were the sights that met the eye. The
Temple Hill, enveloped in flames from top to bottom, appeared to be
boiling up from its very roots; yet the sea of flame was nothing compared
to the oceans of blood.
The Romans continued to systematically quash the Jewish
uprising by eliminating Zealots in Jerusalem, Essenes in Qumran, the
Zealots and Sicarii occupying Herod’s Massada fortress and the entire
Jewish population of Caesarea.
Jewish militancy flared once more when Rabbi Akiva inspired a
Maccabee revolt under the brilliant Jewish revolutionary leader Simon
Bar Kochbar in 130CE. Simon Bar Kochbar was known as the Son of the
Star. This name has the same meaning as that of Zoroaster and implies he
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