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Julian's enterprise to rebuild the Temple is interrupted; the Christian reaction following his death strikes the communities

363·Jérusalem

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Julian authorized the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, less out of favor than out of a desire to refute the Christian prophecy of its final ruin. The works began under the direction of Alypius of Antioch and were interrupted by cave-ins and bursts of flame that Christian sources regarded as a miracle and modern sources as an earthquake.

The emperor's death in Persia, a few months later, ruined the enterprise. The Christian reaction that followed was all the harsher for the hope that had been so vivid: forced conversions in several parts of the East, synagogues transformed into churches, and a new rhetoric that made the failure of the construction site public proof of divine reprobation.

Period :
Antiquity
Type :
Massacre
Region :
Land of Israel
Country :
Terre d'Israël
Sources

Ammien Marcellin, Res gestae ; Jean Chrysostome, Homélies contre les Juifs ; Socrate le Scolastique.

At the same place53

  1. v. 925 av. J.-C.Invasion de Sheshonq Iᵉʳ (Shishaq)non chiffré
  2. 597 av. J.-C.First Babylonian Deportation3 023 à 10 000 déportés selon les sources
  3. 586 av. J.-C.Destruction of the First Temple and Jerusalem832 déportés (Jérémie) ; exécutions à Ribla, morts non chiffrés
  4. 312 av. J.-C.Seizure of the city by Ptolemy I on a Sabbath day, when the population refuses to fight; deportation of Jews to Egyptmilliers déportés
  5. 175-172 av. J.-C.Deposition of high priest Onias III, sold by Jason then by Menelaus; assassination of Onias at Daphne and repression of protestersinconnu
  6. 169 av. J.-C.Pillage of the Temple by Antiochos IV upon his return from his Egyptian campaigninconnu
  7. 168 av. J.-C.Expedition of Apolloniosmilliers selon I Maccabées
  8. 162 av. J.-C.The Hasidim come to treat with high priest Alkime are seized and executed the same day60
  9. 63 av. J.-C.Seizure of the Temple by Pompey~12 000 (Josèphe)
  10. 55 av. J.-C.Crassus plunders the Temple treasure before his Parthian campaigntoll not established
  11. 40-37 av. J.-C.Parthian invasion and then siege by Herod and Sossiusinconnu
  12. 26-36Government of Pontius Pilateinconnu

And 41 more in the catalogue.

In the same country32

  1. v. 840 av. J.-C.Prise de Nebo par Mesha de Moab7 000 (stèle de Mesha)
  2. 722 av. J.-C.Fall of Samaria after three years of siege27 290 déportés (annales de Sargon II)
  3. 701 av. J.-C.Campagne de Sennachérib en Juda200 150 déportés (prisme de Sennachérib)
  4. 582 av. J.-C.Assassination of Gedaliah and the Third Deportation80 pèlerins massacrés ; 745 déportés (Jérémie)
  5. 200-198 av. J.-C.Fifth Syrian Warinconnu
  6. 167-160 av. J.-C.Persecutions by Antiochus IV Epiphanesmilliers
  7. 63-61 av. J.-C.After the capture of the Temple, Pompey reduces Jewish territory and takes captives to Rome, nucleus of the Trastevere communitymilliers de captifs
  8. 53 av. J.-C.Cassius takes the city and sells its inhabitants into slavery~30 000 vendus

And 24 more in the catalogue.

Event 59 of 2483, in chronological order · Antiquity: 88 events in the catalogue

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