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7 wrz 2022 · The Population of Jerusalem in Jesus’ Time. Before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Jerusalem was home to numerous Diaspora Jewish communities. Evidence of these communities abounds. Texts, such as the New Testament, Mishnah, and Josephus’ writings, help us reconstruct who they were.
- The Bethesda Pool, Site of One of Jesus' Miracles
Among the most famous of Jesus’ miracles is recounted in the...
- Hezekiah's Tunnel Reexamined
Hezekiah’s Tunnel, part of Jerusalem’s water system, is...
- Colorful Crusader Churches
To get a sense for the Crusaders’ taste for pictorial art,...
- Inscription
The ossuaries began from the Zoroastrians of Persia about...
- Egypt
On Saturday, November 14, 2020, the Egyptian Antiquities...
- The Tomb of Queen Helena of Adiabene
It may well be that any Adiabenan royal dying at this time...
- The Bethesda Pool, Site of One of Jesus' Miracles
The Jewish designation... for territory other than the land of Israel, is the Diaspora. And by the time of the first century, there were probably then, as now, more Jews living outside the...
19 gru 2022 · Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, then, literally occurred in the shadow of Herod’s reign — within sight of Herodion — while at the same time posing a divine challenge to it by bringing forth the ultimate royal messiah born in the village of David.
Many modern Jews in the Diaspora do not celebrate any Jewish festivals at all, or only celebrate Hanukkah or perhaps the High Holidays (Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur) and Passover. Those Jews today who do celebrate Jewish festivals have usually set aside most of the traditional observances.
In Israel, the "holy day" portion of Sukkot (and the other two pilgrimage festivals, Passover and Shavu'ot) is celebrated for one day. Diaspora communities celebrate it for two days, commemorating the time in antiquity when calendation was performed at the Temple and its results reported to the Diaspora using a tenuous network of signal fires ...
The history of the diaspora is usually taken to begin in 587/6 bce, when Nebuchadnezzar took the inhabitants of Jerusalem into captivity. When permitted to return by Cyrus the Persian king, many remained voluntarily in Babylonia.
1 lut 2024 · The requirement of pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem is mentioned in the passages of Scripture that deal with three annual festivals: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.
