By the first day of Tamuz (mid-July), the stench of death and pestilence filled the city. It was then that the zealots fully came to realize that there was no h...
Although the Roman siege continued to take its toll on those inside Jerusalem, Titus began to look for ways to hasten its end. And so, he decided to tighten the...
After taking the second wall and pushing the zealots back deeper into the upper city and the temple complex, Titus relaxed the siege for a short time, to see if...
When Titus had come to Jerusalem, he encountered a city that had been effectively under siege by the two remaining zealot leaders long before he had arrived. Si...
Last month, I took part in an online debate regarding Noah’s flood: was it a worldwide flood, a local flood, or should Genesis 6-9 be understood as an example o...
The State of Jerusalem in the Spring of AD 70 During the winter of AD 69-70, the three factions of zealots in Jerusalem terrorized both each other and the civil...
In my last post, I began to go through chapter 2 of Bart Ehrman’s book, How Jesus Became God. It is in chapter 2 that Ehrman attempts to argue that within Judai...
Bart Ehrman’s second chapter in his book, How Jesus Became God, is entitled, “Divine Humans in Ancient Israel.” Having spent his first chapter taking about paga...
With the Idumeans now in the city, they and the zealots began to unleash a reign of terror in Jerusalem. The first order of business for the Idumeans was to go ...
In Bart Ehrman’s book, How Jesus Became God, he argues (as the title suggests) that the historical Jesus was just a man—an apocalyptic prophet who expected the ...