In the Roman period, but we see other holy objects So we have the menorah,Ī very important symbol in Jewish history, especially There were holy objects, and that's what we see here, being carried into Rome as spoils, in the Arch of Titus. Without the fun stuff, "without the things that are meaningful," and Jews would say, "This is the Jerusalem Statues, no images of deities, which Romans would say, "Oh, that's a Roman temple Of the age of Augustus, but has something odd about it, and that is it has no
Problem led, for example, to the building of the temple in Jerusalem that, by all intents and purposes, looks like a Roman temple People could read them, and so the complex To Jews so, for example, Egyptians would circumcise as well, but many of them were strange, and Judeans were soĪpparent because they had a religion of books and They had their temple,Īnd they insisted upon circumcising their children,Īnd they had food laws, and they had a thing called a Sabbath, and all of these were very weird to Romans in different ways. Who had the potential of being good subjects,īut had certain odd needs. The Romans worked to find a way to take these people, People weren't allowed to send money across international lines. They had special rights, for example, in the Roman Empire, to send back their donations, from wherever they lived, to Jerusalem where other Most peoples would have a different temple in each city, so there'd be a temple for my god here, and I'd go to another city, Ways, and so we're watching a culture figuring out what it means to work with this very peculiar group, with its one temple for the one god.
Samaritans are not so happy about these pagansĬoming into their country and taking over their holy land, and the complexities of interaction boiled in such complex People whose holy mountain is in what's now Nablus,Īnd lots and lots of Jews, and the Jews and the Judea, it has polytheists and has Samaritans, The Romans are moving into what we would call the Middle East and the province of Judea. The Roman Empire is growing in the first century, and Parade is responded to by someone who understands the triumph and suffers the triumph at the same time. Is the unique situation where a Roman triumphal Perplexity, I think, not knowing which side he was on, and so what we see here
Revolting against Rome, and so Josephus is standing at the moment of this triumphal parade, watching it with ultimate That only a small part of the Jewish people were He was a Judean general who switched sides in the middle of the war, and was supported by the emperor's family to write the history to convince Jews to not be part of this war and to convince Romans Well, we're very fortunate that the Jewish War had its historian, Joseph, son of Mattathias, in Hebrew, Flavius Josephus, in Latin. There is even an illusion of space as these soldiers carry the booty, from the temple in Jerusalem, through a gate of the city. Sometimes miss the violence, and we tend to talk about it informally because, in so many ways, itĮxemplifies ancient Roman art. History, when we look at the Arch of Titus relief, we
Named Simon, son of Giora, who was one of the rebels of Jerusalem, was killed at the end. At theĮnd of which the general of the losing army wouldīe ceremonially murdered. I mean, this was a big moment of celebrating victory in Rome. Would enter with booty, with lots of attendants and A triumphalĪrch is something through which the emperor Parade honoring the general, soon to be, emperor, Titus, at his great victory atĭestroying Jerusalem. Most famous of which show the spoils of Jerusalemīeing brought into Rome in the great triumphal Looking at the bas-reliefs of the Arch of Titus, the
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