07-17-2008, 10:09 AM
These are excellent, thanks very much. Laudes.
There's been much said about the burning of the temple in Jerusalem, and theories abound about how Josephus' description of Titus desperately trying to ensure the temple wasn't defiled was a cynical fawning to Titus and Vespasian. However, given that the military commander appointed to assist Titus by Vespasian, Tiberius Julius Alexander, was himself Jewish, and seemingly tried to maintain some of his religious sensibilities in the last days of the war, it lends far more credence to Josephus' account being true IMHO.
History; nothing's black and white.
There's been much said about the burning of the temple in Jerusalem, and theories abound about how Josephus' description of Titus desperately trying to ensure the temple wasn't defiled was a cynical fawning to Titus and Vespasian. However, given that the military commander appointed to assist Titus by Vespasian, Tiberius Julius Alexander, was himself Jewish, and seemingly tried to maintain some of his religious sensibilities in the last days of the war, it lends far more credence to Josephus' account being true IMHO.
History; nothing's black and white.
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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