The Jews Rebelled Again in a.d. 132 and Were Again Defeated.
SECOND JEWISH REVOLT (A.D. 132-135)
Bar Kochba
Masada didn't bring a permanent cease to the Jewish uprisings. In A.D. 132, a Jewish leader named Bar Kochva, lead a revolt against attempts to Romanize Jerusalem and attempted to liberate Judea from Roman rule. He fix a Jewish land supported by 200,000 soldiers that endured for three years. Hailed equally a messiah, Kochva reportedly rode a lion, fought in the forepart lines with his soldiers and cut downwardly an unabridged Roman legion before he was brought under control. Roman legions returned three years later and leveled Jerusalem.
The Second Jewish Revolt lasted for four years from A.D. 132 and 135 at a neat loss. The Jews were ultimately defeated past Hadrian in the simply serious war he faced while he served as the Roman Emperor. In A.D. 135, Hadrian banished the Jews from Jerusalem and Palestine, razed Jerusalem, and rebuilt the city as Aelia Capitolina (the basis of today's Old Metropolis) with pagan shrines and a statue of Jupiter placed over the site of Jesus's crucifixion.
Afterwards the destruction of the Jewish temple in A.D. 70 and the banishment of the Jews from Jerusalem in A.D. 135 , Jews began dispersing around the globe. This was the outset of the Diaspora. Many Jews lived in isolated groups that frequently had piffling ro no contact with other Jewish groups. The groups were held together by religious tradition and by faith in a common calling and destiny. This chesion and fragment allowed Jews around the globe; develop as community that was both national and international at the same time.
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Bar Kochba Rebellion
The Bar Kokhba revolt lasted from A.D. 132 to 135 and was one of the largest Jewish uprisings against the Romans. Ultimately unsuccessful it was spearheaded by Simeon bar Kokhba, a Jewish leader in Judea Province. Fifty. Michael White at the University of Texas told PBS: "The relationship between Judaism and Christianity after the plough of the 2d century would become more than and more than hostile as time went on partly considering of other political forces that connected to develop. The political expectations of apocalypse did not but die out later on the first defection; some people, both within Christian tradition and within Jewish tradition, yet expected a cataclysmic event to bring a new kingdom on earth shortly. As a consequence within sixty years after the first revolt there would ascend a new rebellion. Nosotros typically call this the 2nd Jewish Defection against Rome or the Bar Kochba defection. And it'south named after a famous rebel leader who really becomes the primal figure of this new political period. He'south chosen Bar Kochba. His name, though, actually is not a existent proper noun, it'southward a kind of messianic title. [Source: L. Michael White, Professor of Classics and Manager of the Religious Studies Program, Academy of Texas at Austin Frontline, PBS, April 1998 \=/]
"Bar Kochba ways "son of the star." Information technology's a title taken from the Book of Numbers equally a reference to Davidic tradition. It's a kingship title. The star is the star of Judah, one of the symbols of the political expectation of apocalyptic tradition. His real name seems to have been Shimon Bar Kosova, and he probably was of a royal family of the Jewish tradition. But he takes to himself this messianic identity and claims that in the yr 132 it is time for a new kingdom to exist reestablished in Israel. Plainly he did have Jerusalem for some time. ...It's possible, although we're not absolutely sure, that he thought he could rebuild the temple besides. Merely events would not let that happen. \=/
"The Romans very quickly began to put down the revolt and within three years all of those who had followed Bar Kochba were either killed or dispersed. The story of the Bar Kochba revolt is actually one of the most tragic in all of Jewish history precisely considering it really simply furthered the desolation of the country and the economical impecuniousness of the Jewish people. The Roman regime were merciless in stamping out any signs of this revolt, they could not let this happen again. And and then nosotros find, the evidence of Bar Kochba revolt really being a nightmare for the archaeologists. Recently the discoveries of caves around the Dead Ocean take shown straight data most the Bar Kochba revolt. Apparently the rebels that followed Bar Kochba hid in these caves during the last stages of the state of war, but we know that the Romans knew where they were and simply camped upwardly on top of the hill waiting for them to starve to death or come out and give up. But apparently their resolution was pretty stiff considering many of them did. One of the caves is called the cave of horrors and it contains over 40 skeletons of men, women and children who preferred to die rather than requite in to the Romans. Another cave is called the cavern of letters and in it were found caches of pottery and coins and other things of daily life. They were living down in these caves for quite some time and, and could have held on probably had they non starved to death." \=/
Archaeological Bear witness of Bar Kochba Rebellion
Heather Ramsey of Listverse wrote: The exact reasons for the defection have been a mystery to historians, merely many suspected that the Romans' harsh treatment of the Jews was the chief crusade. "In mid-2014, a new archaeological clue was discovered in Jerusalem by the Antiquities Authority as they excavated due north of Damascus Gate. They plant a large limestone fragment that commemorated Roman Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from 117–138. Originally, the stone slab may have been office of a gateway. Just at some bespeak, information technology had been recycled into a floor effectually an opening for a cistern. This new find is the correct half of a full inscription; the left half was discovered in the 1800s. [Source: Heather Ramsey, Listverse, March 4, 2015]
"Dedicated to Hadrian in 129–130 past Legio X Fretensis, a Roman legion, the articulate Latin inscription on the slab has been translated into English: "To the Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, son of the deified Traianus Parthicus, grandson of the deified Nerva, high priest, invested with tribunician ability for the 14th time, delegate for the third time, father of the country (defended past) the tenth legion Fretensis Antoniniana."
Tunnels under upper Herodium possibly used in Bar Kochba Tunnels
"This inscription is important because information technology provides Hadrian'due south name and titles and a date. In Jewish history, Hadrian is infamous for the "Hadrianic decrees" that persecuted Jews and forbade them to practice their faith. The date confirms that the Roman 10th Legion was in Jerusalem just before the Bar Kokhba revolt. The inscription may also allude to a reason for the uprising: the creation of a Roman colony in Jerusalem, "Aelia Capitolina," which appears to be named after Hadrian, whose consummate proper name is Publius Aelius Hadrianus.
""There is no uncertainty that the discovery of this inscription will contribute greatly to the longstanding question virtually the reasons that led to the outbreak of the Bar Kokhba defection," said Dr. Rina Avner, who led the excavation. "Were the reasons for the rebellion the construction of Aelia Capitolina and the establishment of the pagan temple on the site of the Jewish Temple Mount; or conversely perchance, these were the results of the revolt—that is, punitive action taken past Hadrian against those who rebelled against Roman rule?"
A cloth bundle containing gold coins and jewelry constitute stashed in a pit in the courtyard of an aboriginal building in Kiryat Gat region in southern State of israel in 2012 was likely put there during the Bar Kokhba defection, almost ii,000 years ago. Israel Antiquities Authority's Sa'ar Ganor said: "This was probably an emergency cache that was curtained at a time of impending danger by a wealthy woman who wrapped her jewelry and money in a cloth and hid them deep in the basis," says Ganor. "It's at present clear that the owner never returned to merits it." While at that place are other hoards from State of israel dating to around this time, this observe was different because information technology included several gold coins, rare in State of israel at that time. [Source: Mati Milstein, Archæology, Dec 6, 2012]
2nd Jewish State of war Prompts Christian/Jewish Split up
L. Michael White at the University of Texas told PBS: "The 1 thing that does happen in the second revolt, though, is [that] the self-consciously apocalyptic and messianic identity of Bar Kochba forces the effect for the Christian tradition. Information technology appears that some people in the second revolt tried to printing other Jews, including Christians, into the defection, saying, "Come join us to fight against the Romans. You believe God is going to restore the kingdom to Israel, don't y'all? Join united states of america." Simply the Christians past this time are starting to say, "No, he tin can't be the messiah — we already have one." And at that point nosotros actually see the full-fledged separation of Jewish tradition and Christian tradition becoming clear. [Source: L. Michael White, Professor of Classics and Managing director of the Religious Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin Frontline, PBS, Apr 1998 \=/]
"There are a number of important discoveries that have been fabricated from the catamenia of the second revolt which evidence us precisely the kind the things that were going on: coins, for example, struck by the rebel forces nether Bar Kochba which say things like - "the twelvemonth one of the redemption of Israel." They really think they have established the new kingdom. Others bear witness the temple restored. And maybe they thought they were going to rebuild the temple. \=/
"Nosotros accept to recollect that one of the stimuli to the second revolt was the suspicion on the office of many Jews that the Roman emperor Hadrian had plans to build a temple to Jupiter in Jerusalem itself. And of course that would accept been an anathema to whatever faithful Jew. So the idea of restoring the kingdom was really more than than just a spiritual practise, it was a political reality in their mind. \=/
"At present amid the letters found in the cave of letters is at least one from Bar Kochba himself. And it's a very interesting letter because it's addressed to Bar Menachem and it asks his friends and followers to bring certain things to the caves. So they're expecting to hold out for quite some fourth dimension. Amid the things he asks them to bring are myrtle leaves, citrons, palm branches. In fact it sounds similar they're preparing to gloat a passover meal. The expectations of the 2nd revolt are much like those of the start revolt against Rome, namely that God would bring deliverance and establish the kingdom. \=/
Curvation of Titus sacking of Jerusalem
Jewish Wars Depicted in Arch of Titus
The Arch of Titus (on the Colosseum-side entrance of the Forum and Palantine Hill in Rome) is a triumphal arch congenital past Emperor Domitian (ruled A.D. 81-96) to commemorate the victory by his brother Emperor Titus's over the Jews in A.D. lxx and the sacking of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Jewish Temple. On the side of this curvation is a frieze, showing Roman soldiers plundering the Temple of Jerusalem and carrying off the Menorah (a sacred candelabra used by Jews during Hanukkah). Over the centuries the curvation crumbled until a small portion of the eye remained, In 1822 it was restored. Jewish authorities in Rome once made a rule that any Jew who knowingly walked nether the arch was no longer a Jew. After the curvation was completed Jews created a special pathway so they could stay articulate of the monument that celebrate the destruction of their sacred temple.
Located at the highest point of the Via Sacra which leads to the Roman Forum, the Arch of Titus and reliefs was completed after A.D. 81 and contains marble, reliefs that areabout 2.4 meters in height. The triumphal curvation has only one passageway framed by fluted columns. The spandrels depict the victories in relief; the attic contains an inscription and the internal faces of the passageway depict in relief triumphal processions. The arch was erected posthumously, later Titus had already go a "god." [Source: Bluffton]
The inscription on the attic reads: "Senatus Populusque Romanus Divo Tito Divi Vespasiani Filio Vespasiano Augusto" Daniela Gutiérrez, an Art History Instructor at Cypress Higher, wrote: "The Roman Senate and People to Deified Titus, Vespasian Augustus, son of Deified Vespasian. The Relief of The Spoils of the Jerusalem depicts the triumphal procession with the booty from the temple at Jerusalem — the sacred Menorah, the Table of the Shewbread shown at an bending, and the silvery trumpets which called the Jews to Rosh Hashanah. The bearers of the booty article of clothing laurel crowns and those carrying the candlestick accept pillows on their shoulders. Placards in the groundwork explain the spoils or the victories Titus won. These few figures, continuing for hundreds in the actual procession, movement toward the carved curvation at the right, complete with quadriga at the tiptop. [Source: slideshare.cyberspace/danielasgtrz/art-111-art-of-majestic-rome]
"Relief of The Triumph of Titus depicts the actual triumphal procession with the toga-clad Titus in the chariot, but with the addition of allegorical figures — the winged Victory riding in the chariot with Titus who places a wreathe on his head, the goddess leading the horses (identified by some scholars as Roma, others as Valor [Virtus]), and the semi-nude Genius of the People. Because the reliefs were deeply carved, some of the forward heads take broken off." [Ibid]
Jews and Belatedly Roman Police force (A.D. 315-531)
Jacob Marcus wrote: "The Heart Ages, for the Jew at least, begin with the advent to power of Constantine the Groovy (306-337). He was the first Roman emperor to issue laws which radically limited the rights of Jews every bit citizens of the Roman Empire, a privilege conferred upon them past Caracalla in 212. As Christianity grew in power in the Roman Empire it influenced the emperors to limit farther the ceremonious and political rights of the Jews. Most of the royal laws that deal with the Jews since the days of Constantine are institute in the Latin Codex Theodosianius (438) and in the Latin and Greek lawmaking of Justinian (534). Both of these monumental works are therefore very of import, for they enable us to trace the history of the progressive deterioration of Jewish rights. [Source: Jacob Marcus, "The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook," 315-1791, (New York: JPS, 1938), three-seven]
Roman seal
"The real significance of Roman law for the Jew and his history is that information technology exerted a profound influence on subsequent Christian and even Muslim legislation. The second-course status of citizenship of the Jew, equally crystallized in the Justinian code, was thus entrenched in the medieval globe, and under the influence of the Church the disabilities imposed upon him received religious sanction and relegated him even to lower levels.
In "Laws of Constantine the Great Judaism is denied the opportunity of remaining a missionary religion because of the prohibition to make proselytes. Laws of Constantine the Nifty, October 18, A.D. 315: Apropos Jews, Heaven-Worshippers, And Samaritans*": "We wish to make it known to the Jews and their elders and their patriarchs that if, after the enactment of this law, any one of them dares to attack with stones or some other manifestation of anger another who has fled their dangerous sect and attached himself to the worship of God [Christianity], he must chop-chop exist given to the flames and burn~ together with all his accomplices. "Moreover, if any ane of the population should join their abominable sect and attend their meetings, he will acquit with them the deserved penalties. * Heaven-Worshippers were a sect closely allied to Judaism.
"A Latin constabulary of Justinian (527-565) does not allow a Jew to bear witness in court against an orthodox Christian. Thus every bit early equally the sixth century the Jews were already laboring nether social, economic, civil, political, and religious disabilities. A Law Of Justinian, July 28, 531: Apropos Heretics And Manichaeans And Samaritans: "Since many judges, in deciding cases, accept addressed united states in need of our determination, asking that they be informed what ought to be done with witnesses who are heretics, whether their testimony ought to be received or rejected, nosotros therefore ordain that no heretic, nor fifty-fifty they who cherish the Jewish superstition, may offer testimony against orthodox Christians who are engaged in litigation, whether ane or the other of the parties is an orthodox Christian. [Merely a Jew may offer testimony on behalf of an orthodox Christian confronting some one who is not orthodox.]
Late Roman Laws Affecting the Jews
Laws of Constantine r. 311-337
C.T., xvi.8.1; to Evagrius, 18.ten.315.
On converts to Judaism and to Christianity.
C.T., xvi.eight .3; to the Officials at Cologne, I I xii .321.
With sure exceptions Jews are to be chosen to the Decurionate.
C.T., 16.8.2; to Ablavius the Pretorian Prefect, 29.xi.330
On the relation of Jews to the Decurionate.
C.T., 16.eight.4; to the Jewish Priests, Rabbis, Elders and other authorities, I xii.331.
Immunities of synagogue authorities.
C.T., sixteen.8.5; to Felix, P.P., 22.x.335
On molesting Jewish converts to Christianity.
C.T., 16.9.one; to Felix, P.P., 22.ten.335.
Circumcision of non-Jewish slaves. [Source: James Parkes: "The Disharmonize of the Church and the Synagogue: A Report in the Origins of Antisemitism," (New York: JPS, 1934). The reference C.T. refers to the Code Theodosianus; C.J. refers to the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian. Both these codes compiled earlier laws, and information technology is from the texts of these compilations that the earlier legal history can exist established]
Roman governor
"Laws of the Western Provinces of the Empire
Laws of Honorius r. 395-423
C.T., 12.i.157; to Theodorus, P.P., 13.two Or ix.398.
Jewish duty in the Decurionate.
C.T., 12.1.158; ditto.
C.T., 16.eight.xiv; to Messala, P.P., I I iv.399.
Confiscation of the aurum coronarium.
C.T., sixteen.8.16; to Romulianus, P.P., 22.iv.404.
Exclusion of Jews from military and court functions.
C.T., 16.8.17; to Hadrian, P.P., 25.vii.404.
Permission to ship aurum coronarium restored.
C.T., 16.v.44; to Donatus (in Africa), 24.xi.408.
Jews and heretics must not disturb sacraments.
C.T., 16.5.46; to Theodore, P.P., 15.v.409.
Laws confronting Jews and heretics to exist strictly enforced.
C.T., 16.8.19; to Jovius, P.P., 15.4.409.
The ' Caelicoli ' are to be suppressed.
C.T., 8.8.8 or 2.8.26; to Johannes, P.P., 26.vii.409 or 412.
Jews to be left undisturbed on Sabbaths and Banquet Days.
C.T., 16.viii.20; to Johannes, P.P., 26.vii.412.
Synagogues and Sabbaths to be left undisturbed.
C.T., 16.9.3; to Annatus Didascalus and the Elders of the Jews, 6.11.415.
Jews may own Christian servants if they do not convert them.
C.T., 16.8.23; to Annatus Didascalusand the Eldersof the Jews, 24.ix.416.
Jewish converts to Christianity may revert to Judaism.
C.T., 16.8.24; to Palladius, P.P., 10.three.418.
Jews may not enter authorities service or army. They may follow
law, liberal professions and decurionate.
Laws of Valentinian III r. 425-455
Const. Sirm. half-dozen fin. to Amatius, Governor of Gaul, 9.7.425.
Jews to be excluded from government service.
C.T., 16.8.28; to Bassus, P.P., 8.iv.426.
Converted children of Jews to inherit from their parents.
Laws of Constantius (337-361) and the Jews
Jacob Marcus wrote: ""The Laws of Constantius (337-361), the 2nd option, forbid intermarriage betwixt Jewish men and Christian women. A generation later, in 388, all marriages between Jews and Christians were forbidden. Constantius also did away with the right of Jews to possess slaves. This prohibition to trade in and to keep slaves at a time when slave labor was common was not only an try to arrest conversion to Judaism; information technology was also a blow at the economic life of the Jew. Information technology put him at a disadvantage with his Christian competitor to whom this economic privilege was bodacious." [Source: Jacob Marcus, "The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook," 315-1791, (New York: JPS, 1938), 3-7]
"Laws of Constantius, August 13, A.D. 339:Concerning Jews, Heaven-Worshippers, And Samaritans: "This pertains to women, who live in our weaving factories and whom Jews, in their foulness, take in marriage. It is decreed that these women are to be restored to the weaving factories. [Marriages betwixt Jews and Christian women of the purple weaving factory are to exist dissolved.] This prohibition [of intermarriage] is to be preserved for the future lest the Jews induce Christian women to share their shameful lives. If they do this they will subject themselves to a sentence of death. [The Jewish husbands are to be punished with death.]
"A Jew Shall Non Possess A Christian Slave: If any 1 among the Jews has purchased a slave of another sect or nation, that slave shall at in one case exist appropriated for the majestic treasury. If, indeed, he shall take circumcised the slave whom he has purchased, he will non only exist fined for the damage done to that slave but he will too receive uppercase punishment. If, indeed, a Jew does not hesitate to purchase slaves-those who are members of the faith that is worthy of respect [Christianity]and then all these slaves who are plant in his possession shall at once be removed. No delay shall be occasioned, but he is to be deprived of the possession of those men who are Christians.
Constantius
"Laws of Constantius [I r. 305-311, 2 r. 340-361]
C.T., 16.9.2; to Evagrius, 13.viii.339
Purchase and circumcision of non-Jewish or Christian slaves.
C.T., 16.viii.6; to Evagrius, 13.viii.339.
Spousal relationship between Jews and members of the royal factories.
C.T., xvi.viii.vii; to Thalassius, P.P., three.seven.352 or 357
Betrayment to Judaism.
Laws of Valentinian [I r. 364-375, II r. 375-392]
C.T., seven.8.2; to Remigius Mag. Off., six.five.368, 370 or 373.
Violation of synagogues.
Laws of Gratian r. 375-378
C.T., 12.one.99; to Hypatius, P.P., eighteen.iv.383.
On the relation of Jews to the Decurionate.
C.T., 16.seven.3; to Hypatius, P.P., 21.v.383
Intestability for apostates to Judaism.
C.T., three.1.v; to Cynegius, P.P., 22.ix.384.
Possession or buy of Christian slaves.
Laws of Theodosius I "the Great" r. 378-395
C.T., 3.7.2 or 9.seven.v; to Cynegius, P.P., 14.three.388.
Intermarriage between Jews and Christians.
C.T., 13.5.18; to Alexander, Prefect of Egypt, I8.ii.390
Questions of maritime ship.
C.T., xvi.8.8; to Tatianus, P.P., 17.iv.392.
Jewish correct of excommunication.
C.T., sixteen.8.ix; to Addeus, Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Command, 29.ix.393.
Judaism is a lawful sect.
C.J., i.9.7; to Infantius, Governor ofthe Eastern Provinces, 30.xii.393.
Jews may only ally according to Christian table of affinity.
[The text of this police is not to be found in the Codex Theodosianus] [Source: James Parkes: "The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue: A Study in the Origins of Antisemitism," (New York: JPS, 1934). The reference C.T. refers to the Code Theodosianus; C.J. refers to the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian. Both these codes compiled earlier laws, and it is from the texts of these compilations that the earlier legal history can be established]
Law of Theodosius II (408-410) and the Jews
Jacob Marcus wrote: "A law of Theodosius 2 (408-410), prohibits Jews from holding whatsoever advantageous office of accolade in the Roman land. They were compelled, however, to assume those public offices which entailed huge financial losses and well-nigh certain ruin, and they were non even granted the hope of an ultimate exemption. This Novella (New Law) III of Theodosius Two also makes a direct set on on the Jewish faith by reenacting a law which forbade the building of new Jewish synagogues. This prohibition was known a generation before this. It was reenacted at present, probably to pacify the aroused Christian mob in the Eastern Empire which desired to vanquish the religious spirit of the Jews who were massing at Jerusalem and confidently looking forrad to the coming of a Messianic redeemer in 440. This disability, later on taken over past some Muslim states, was reenunciated by the Church building which sought to arrest the progress of Judaism, its sometime rival." [Source: Jacob Marcus, "The Jew in the Medieval Earth: A Sourcebook," 315-1791, (New York: JPS, 1938), 3-seven]
A Constabulary of Theodosius 11, January 31, 439: Novella III: Concerning Jews, Samaritans, Heretics, And Pagans: "Wherefore, although according to an quondam saying [of the Greek Hippocrates, the "father" of medicine] "no cure is to be practical in desperate sicknesses," nevertheless, in gild that these dangerous sects which are unmindful of our times may not spread into life the more freely, in indiscriminate disorder every bit information technology were, nosotros ordain by this law to be valid for all time:
"No Jew - or no Samaritan who subscribes to neither [the Jewish nor the Christian] religion - shall obtain offices and dignities; to none shall the assistants of city service be permitted; nor shall whatever one exercise the office of a defender [that is, overseer] of the metropolis. Indeed, we believe it sinful that the enemies of the heavenly majesty and of the Roman laws should become the executors of our laws - the administration of which they have slyly obtained and that they, fortified by the authority of the acquired rank, should have the power to judge or decide as they wish against Christians, yes, oftentimes fifty-fifty over bishops of our holy religion themselves, and thus, as it were, insult our religion.
"Moreover, for the aforementioned reason, we forestall that any synagogue shall ascension equally a new edifice. [Fewer synagogues meant less take chances of Christians condign Jews.] However, the propping upwards of old synagogues which are at present threatened with imminent ruin is permitted. To these things we add together that he who misleads a slave or a freeman against his will or by punishable advice, from the service of the Christian religion to that of an abominable sect and ritual, is to be punished by loss of holding and life. [That is, the Jew who converts any 1 to Judaism loses life and holding.]
"On the 1 hand, whoever has built a synagogue must realize that he has worked to the advantage of the Cosmic church [which will confiscate the edifice]; on the other hand, whoever has already secured the badge of office shall non hold the dignities he has acquired. On the contrary, he who worms himself into office must remain, equally before, in the lowest rank even though he volition have already earned an honorary office. And as for him who begins the building of a synagogue and is not moved by the want of repairing it, he shall be punished by a fine of fifty pounds gold for his daring. Moreover, if he will have prevailed with his evil teachings over the religion of some other, he shall see his wealth confiscated and himself shortly subjected to a death sentence.
"And since information technology behooves the royal majesty to consider everything with such foresight that the full general welfare does non endure in the least, we ordain that the taxation-paying officeholders of all towns likewise as the provincial civil servants - who are obligated to employ ,heir wealth and to make public gifts as function of their burdensome and diverse official and military duties hall remain in their own classes, no matter what sect they vest to. Let it not announced equally if we have accorded the benefit of exemption to those men, detestable in their insolent maneuvering, whom we wish to condemn past the authority of this police force. [Jews have to accept financially ruinous public offices without hope of exemption.]
"This further limitation is to be observed, namely, that these public servants from these above mentioned sects shall never, equally far as individual diplomacy are concerned, bear out judicial sentences, nor be wardens of the jail. This is done in guild that Christians, as it sometimes happens, may not be hidden away and suffer a double imprisonment through the hatred of the guards- [imprisonment is bad enough without having a Jewish jailer.] And furthermore information technology may be doubted that they have been justly imprisoned."
Theodosius II
Laws of the Eastern Provinces of the Empire upwardly to the Publication Ofthe Theodosian Code
Laws of Arcadius r. 395-408
C.T., 16.8.10; to the Jews, 27.ii.396.
Jews to fix their own prices.
C.T., sixteen.8.11; to Claudianus, Governor of the Eastern Provinces, 24.4.396.
The Patriarch non to be insulted.
C.T., ix.45.two; to Archelaus, Prefect of Arab republic of egypt, 17.half-dozen.397.
Jews not to become Christians from economical motives.
C.T., xvi.8.12; to Anatolius, Prefect of Illyricum, 17.six.397.
Jews and their synagogues are to exist protected.
C.T., sixteen.8.xiii; to Caesarius, P.P., I.vii.397.
Jewish clergy to have the same privileges as Christian clergy.
C.T., 2.1.x; to Eutychianus, P.P., 3.ii.398.
Jews to follow Roman Police except on religious questions.
C.T., 12.1.165; to Eutychianus, P.P., xxx.xii.399.
Jews to serve in Decurionate.
C.T., 16.viii.15; to Eutychianus, P.P., 3.ii.404.
The Patriarch to retain his privileges.
Laws of Theodosius Ii r. 408-450
C.T., 16.8.eighteen; to Anthemius, P.P., 29.v.408.
Jews not to mock the Cross at Purim.
C.T., xvi.8.22; to Aurelian, P.P., 20.10.415.
Degradation of the Patriarch.
C.T., sixteen.9.4; to Monaxius, P.P., 10.iv.417.
Diverse regulations on the possession of Christian slaves.
C.T., 16.eight.21; to Philip, Governor of Illyricum, 6.viii.412.
Jews are not to be attacked or synagogues burnt, but
they must not outrage Christianity.
C.T., 16.8.25; to Asclepiodotus, P.P., 15.ii.423.
Synagogues not to be pulled downwards or confiscated.
New ones not to exist congenital.
C.T., xvi.eight.26; to Asclepiodotus, P.P., 9.iv.423,
Laws to exist enforced, synagogues not to exist pulled
down, Jews to exist exiled for circumcising non-Jews.
C.T., 16.9.5; to Asclepiodotus, P.P., ix.iv.423.
Jews not to purchase Christian slaves.
C.T., 16.8.27; to Asclepiodotus, P.P., viii.vi.423.
New synagogues not to exist built, old ones not to be confiscated.
C.T., 16.10.24; to Asclepiodotus, P.P., viii.vi.423.
Peaceable Jews not to be offended.
C.T., fifteen.5.v; to Asclepiodotus, P.P., I.ii.425.
Jews to observe seasons of fast and feast.
C.T., x6.8.29; to John, Count of the Sacred Largesse, 30.v.420.
All special Jewish taxes to be confiscated to Charity Fund.
Novella 3; to Florentius, P.P., 31.i.438.
No Jew to hold office; new synagogues not to be built; proselytising to be punished with death; new synagogues to be confiscated; crushing public role to exist undertaken; Jewish law to be followed in private cases merely. [Source: James Parkes: "The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue: A Study in the Origins of Antisemitism," (New York: JPS, 1934). The reference C.T. refers to the Code Theodosianus; C.J. refers to the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian. Both these codes compiled earlier laws, and it is from the texts of these compilations that the earlier legal history tin exist established]
Julian Proposes to Rebuild Jerusalem, 362-363
Jacob Marcus wrote: "Christianity was for the first time tolerated by the Roman Emperors in 311. The merely serious endeavour fabricated to hinder its progress after this fourth dimension was by the Emperor Julian (361-363) who had left the Christian fold. Although patently in favor of freedom of faith, he was in reality unjust to the Christians but rather fractional to the Jews. In a famous Greek letter of the alphabet to the Jews, (selection one below), he abolished the special taxes paid to the Roman regime and sought as well to finish the payment of a revenue enhancement paid by Jews for the support of the Jewish patriarchate in Palestine. In this same alphabetic character he also encouraged the rebuilding of Jerusalem and, we may presume, of the Jewish Temple. Had this attempt been successful it would have meant the reestablishment of the Jewish state with its sacrifices, priests, and more important, its Sanhedrin or Senate. [Source: Jacob Marcus, "The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook," 315-1791, (New York: JPS, 1938), three-vii]
Julian Proposes to Rebuild Jerusalem, 362-363: To The Community Of The Jews: "In times by, by far the most crushing affair in the yoke of your slavery has been the fact that you were subjected to unauthorized ordinances and had to contribute an untold amount of money to the accounts of the treasury. [Ever since Vespasian, about 72 CE, the Jews had been paying the Romans special Jewish taxes, like the Fiscus Judaicus.] Of this I used to run into many instances with my own eyes, and I accept learned of more, by finding the records which are preserved against you. Moreover, when a tax was about to exist levied on you again I prevented it, and compelled the impiety of such obloquy to cease here; and I threw into the fire the records against you that were stored in my desks; and then that it is no longer possible for anyone to aim at yous such a reproach of impiety. My brother [cousin] Constantius of honored memory [in whose reign, 337-361, severe laws were enacted against the Jews] was not and so much responsible for these wrongs of yours as were the men who used to frequent his table, barbarians in mind, godless in soul. These I seized with my own hands and put them to decease past thrusting them into the pit, that not even any retentivity of their destruction might still linger amongst u.s..
"And since I wish that y'all should prosper yet more, I take admonished my brother Iulus [Hillel Ii, d. 365], your most venerable patriarch, that the levy which is said to be among yous [the taxes paid past world Jewry for back up of the Palestinian patriarchate] should be prohibited, and that no ane is whatsoever longer to have the ability to oppress the masses of your people by such exactions; then that everywhere, during my reign, you may have security of listen, and in the enjoyment of peace may offer more than fervid prayers for my reign to the Most High God, the Creator, who has deigned to crown me with his own immaculate right paw. For information technology is natural that men who are distracted by any anxiety should be hampered in spirit, and should not have so much confidence in raising their hands to pray; but that those who are in all respects free from care should rejoice with their whole hearts and offer their suppliant prayers on behalf of my imperial office to Mighty God, even to Him who is able to straight my reign to the noblest ends, according to my purpose.
"This you ought to do, in social club that, when I accept successfully concluded the war with Persia, I may rebuild by my own efforts the sacred city of Jerusalem [airtight to the Jews since Hadrian, 135 CE], which for so many years you have longed to see inhabited, and may bring settlers there, and, together with you, may glorify the Most High God therein."
Julian's Failure To Rebuild the Temple, 363
Jacob Marcus wrote: "The 2nd option describes the work of the actual building of the Temple. It is very probable that it was non so much an earthquake, as Church historians say, just the death of Julian in 363 and the coming into power again of a Christian emperor that finally put an end to this projection. (Some modern historians believe — without sufficient ground, in our opinion-that the piece of work on the Temple was never even begun, and look upon the account every bit a fable.) The story of this attempted rebuilding of the Temple is found in the Ecclesiastical History written in Greek past Salamanius Hermias Sozomenus most 443-450. Sozomen was a native Palestinian and claimed to have his knowledge from eye-witnesses. He was a conservative Christian without sympathy for the Jews or for Julian. [Source: Jacob Marcus, "The Jew in the Medieval Globe: A Sourcebook," 315-1791, (New York: JPS, 1938), 3-7]
Julian
Sozomen wrote in "Ecclesiastical History" written about 443-450: "Though the emperor hated and oppressed the Christians, he manifested benignancy and humanity towards the Jews. He wrote to the Jewish patriarchs and leaders, likewise equally to the people, requesting them to pray for him, and for the prosperity of the empire. In taking this footstep he was not actuated, I am convinced, by any respect for their religion; for he was aware that it is, so to speak, the mother of the Christian religion, and he knew that both religions remainder upon the authority of the [biblical] patriarchs and the prophets; but he thought to grieve the Christians by favoring the Jews, who are their most inveterate enemies. But perhaps he also calculated upon persuading the Jews to embrace paganism and sacrifices; for they were only acquainted with the mere letter of the alphabet of Scripture, and could not, similar the Christians and a few of the wisest amid the Hebrews, discern the hidden meaning [the allegorical significant, through which the Christians could prove the validity of Christianity from the Old Testament]. [Source: Sozomen, "Ecclesiastical History" written about 443-450,
"Events proved that this was his existent motive; for he sent for some of the chiefs of the race and exhorted them to return to the observance of the laws of Moses and the customs of their fathers. On their replying that because the Temple in Jerusalem was overturned, information technology was neither lawful nor ancestral to do this in another place than the city out of which they had been cast, he gave them public money, commanded them to rebuild the Temple, and to practice the cult similar to that of their ancestors, by sacrificing after the aboriginal way. [Sacrifice was permitted by Jewish police force but in Jerusalem.] The Jews entered upon the undertaking, without reflecting that, according to the prediction of the holy prophets, it could not be accomplished. They sought for the most proficient artisans, collected materials, cleared the footing, and entered so earnestly upon the chore, that even the women carried heaps of earth, and brought their necklaces and other female ornaments towards defraying the expense.
"The emperor, the other pagans, and all the Jews, regarded every other undertaking as secondary in importance to this. Although the pagans were not well-disposed towards the Jews, still they assisted them in this enterprise, because they reckoned upon its ultimate success, and hoped by this means to falsify the prophecies of Christ. [Since Jesus in the New Attestation had prophesied the destruction of the Temple, its rebuilding would brand of him a faux prophet.] Besides this motive, the Jews themselves [relying on the sympathy of Julian] were impelled by the consideration that the time had arrived for rebuilding their Temple.
"When they had removed the ruins of the former building, they dug up the basis and cleared away its foundation; it is said that on the following day when they were about to lay the first foundation, a not bad earthquake occurred, and by the violent agitation of the globe, stones were thrown upwards from the depths, by which those of the Jews who were engaged in the work were wounded, as besides those who were but looking on. The houses and public porticos, most the site of the Temple, in which they had diverted themselves, were suddenly thrown down; many were caught thereby, some perished immediately, others were institute half expressionless and mutilated of easily or legs, others were injured in other parts of the body.
"When God caused the earthquake to cease, the workmen who survived again returned to their task, partly because such was the edict of the emperor, and partly because they were themselves interested in the undertaking. Men often, in endeavoring to gratify their own passions, seek what is injurious to them, reject what would be truly advantageous, and are deluded by the idea that nada is actually useful except what is amusing to them. When once led astray past this error, they are no longer able to act in a manner conducive to their own interests, or to take alert past the calamities which are visited upon them. [The Church Father here records his belief that the Temple could not be rebuilt.]
Julian's skin hung exterior a fortress gate
"The Jews, I believe, were just in this state; for, instead of regarding this unexpected convulsion as a manifest indication that God was opposed to the reerection of their Temple, they proceeded to recommence the piece of work. But all parties chronicle that they had scarcely returned to the undertaking, when fire burst suddenly from the foundations of the Temple, and consumed several of the workmen. [J. M. Campbell in the Scottish Review, 1900, believed that an explosion of oil put an terminate to the work. This sounds fanciful.]
"This fact is fearlessly stated, and believed by all; the but discrepancy in the narrative is that some maintain that flame burst from the interior of the Temple, as the workmen were striving to force an entrance, while others say that the fire proceeded - directly from the earth. In whichever fashion the miracle might have occurred, it is equally wonderful.
"A more tangible and still more than extraordinary miracle ensued; suddenly the sign of the cantankerous appeared spontaneously on the garments of the persons engaged in the undertaking. These crosses looked like stars, and appeared the work of art. Many were hence led to confess that Christ is God, and that the rebuilding of the Temple was not pleasing to Him; others presented themselves in the church building, were initiated, and besought Christ, with hymns and supplications, to pardon their transgression. If whatever one does not experience tending to believe my narrative, permit him go and be convinced past those who heard the facts I have related from the eyewitnesses of them, for they are notwithstanding alive. Let him ask, likewise, of the Jews and pagans who left the work in an incomplete state, or who, to speak more accurately, were unable to commence it."
Image Sources: Wikimedia, Commons, Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bible in Bildern, 1860
Text Sources: Internet Jewish History Sourcebook sourcebooks.fordham.edu "World Religions" edited by Geoffrey Parrinder (Facts on File Publications, New York); " Encyclopedia of the Globe'southward Religions" edited by R.C. Zaehner (Barnes & Noble Books, 1959); "Former Testament Life and Literature" by Gerald A. Larue, King James Version of the Bible, gutenberg.org, New International Version (NIV) of The Bible, biblegateway.com Complete Works of Josephus at Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), translated by William Whiston, ccel.org , Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org "Encyclopedia of the World Cultures" edited past David Levinson (M.K. Hall & Company, New York, 1994); National Geographic, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian magazine, Times of London, The New Yorker, Fourth dimension, Newsweek, Reuters, AP, AFP, Alone Planet Guides, Compton'southward Encyclopedia and various books and other publications.
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