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THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE! Who killed Jonathan son of Ananus as he strode across the Temple Mount in the year 55 or 56 CE?
No doubt there were many in Yerushalayim who longed to slay this rapacious high priest, & more than a few who would have liked to wipe out the bloated Temple priesthood in its entirety! For what must never be forgotten when speaking of first-century Palestine is that this land (your land & my land!) - this hallowed land from which the spirit of G d flowed to the rest of the world - was occupied territory! Legions of Roman troops were stationed throughout Judea! Some 600 Roman soldiers resided atop the Temple Mount itself, within the high stone walls of the Antonia Fortress, which buttressed the northwest corner of the Temple wall. The unclean centurion in his red cape & polished cuirass who paraded through the Court of Gentiles, his hand hovering over the hilt of his sword, was a not so subtle reminder, if any were needed, of who really ruled this sacred place.
Roman dominion over Jerusalem began in 63 BCE, when Rome's master tactician, Pompey Magnus, entered the city with his conquering legions and laid siege to the Temple! By then, Jerusalem had long since passed its economic & cultural zenith. The far older Canaanite settlement that King David had recast into the seat of his kingdom, the city he had passed to his wayward son, Shlomo, who built the first Temple to God - sacked & destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE - the city that had served as the religious, economic, and poli-tical capital of the Jewish nation for a 1000 years, was, by the time Pompey strode through its gates, recognized less for its beauty and grandeur than for the religious fervor of its troublesome population.
Situated on the southern plateau of the shaggy Judean mountains, between the twin peaks of Mount Scopus & the Mount of Olives, and flanked by the Kidron Valley in the east and the steep, forbidding Valley of Gehenna/Geihinnom in the south, Yerushalayim at the time of this Roman invasion, was home to a settled population of about 100.000 people. Mòr was quite impressed by it all on Wednesday, the third of May 1967, through Mandelbaum Gate & Maison d'Avraham on the Mount of Olives, Gethsemane & àll over up & around till Petra, haSela haAdom, Elji, Ma'an & Rabbat Ammon aka Philadelphia & Jerash of old. Still very intriguing, shocking, symbolic & impressive ~~~
No doubt there were many in Yerushalayim who longed to slay this rapacious high priest, & more than a few who would have liked to wipe out the bloated Temple priesthood in its entirety! For what must never be forgotten when speaking of first-century Palestine is that this land (your land & my land!) - this hallowed land from which the spirit of G d flowed to the rest of the world - was occupied territory! Legions of Roman troops were stationed throughout Judea! Some 600 Roman soldiers resided atop the Temple Mount itself, within the high stone walls of the Antonia Fortress, which buttressed the northwest corner of the Temple wall. The unclean centurion in his red cape & polished cuirass who paraded through the Court of Gentiles, his hand hovering over the hilt of his sword, was a not so subtle reminder, if any were needed, of who really ruled this sacred place.
Roman dominion over Jerusalem began in 63 BCE, when Rome's master tactician, Pompey Magnus, entered the city with his conquering legions and laid siege to the Temple! By then, Jerusalem had long since passed its economic & cultural zenith. The far older Canaanite settlement that King David had recast into the seat of his kingdom, the city he had passed to his wayward son, Shlomo, who built the first Temple to God - sacked & destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE - the city that had served as the religious, economic, and poli-tical capital of the Jewish nation for a 1000 years, was, by the time Pompey strode through its gates, recognized less for its beauty and grandeur than for the religious fervor of its troublesome population.
Situated on the southern plateau of the shaggy Judean mountains, between the twin peaks of Mount Scopus & the Mount of Olives, and flanked by the Kidron Valley in the east and the steep, forbidding Valley of Gehenna/Geihinnom in the south, Yerushalayim at the time of this Roman invasion, was home to a settled population of about 100.000 people. Mòr was quite impressed by it all on Wednesday, the third of May 1967, through Mandelbaum Gate & Maison d'Avraham on the Mount of Olives, Gethsemane & àll over up & around till Petra, haSela haAdom, Elji, Ma'an & Rabbat Ammon aka Philadelphia & Jerash of old. Still very intriguing, shocking, symbolic & impressive ~~~
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