If the Romans rebuilt the Temple...

Keenir

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What if one of the Roman Emperors (with a divergence after 70 AD) were to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem?
 
I think Julian the Apostate permitted the Jews to try to rebuild the Temple, but it ran into some problems with construction (Christian sources claim the fire of God, while more skeptical sources claim some kind of natural gas problem) and never got done.
 

Leo Caesius

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I think Julian the Apostate permitted the Jews to try to rebuild the Temple, but it ran into some problems with construction (Christian sources claim the fire of God, while more skeptical sources claim some kind of natural gas problem) and never got done.
You mean to say that, having come to occupy the one spot in the Middle East that doesn't have any oil, the Jews did manage to discover natural gas, but a) it was directly underneath the Temple and b) it blew the place up?

I don't care if you think it was the "Fire of God" or not, it still sounds like God has a real sick sense of humor. :rolleyes:
 
You mean to say that, having come to occupy the one spot in the Middle East that doesn't have any oil, the Jews did manage to discover natural gas, but a) it was directly underneath the Temple and b) it blew the place up?

I don't care if you think it was the "Fire of God" or not, it still sounds like God has a real sick sense of humor. :rolleyes:

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You mean to say that, having come to occupy the one spot in the Middle East that doesn't have any oil, the Jews did manage to discover natural gas, but a) it was directly underneath the Temple and b) it blew the place up?

I don't care if you think it was the "Fire of God" or not, it still sounds like God has a real sick sense of humor. :rolleyes:

“How odd of God/To choose the Jews.”
-William Norman Ewer
 
You mean to say that, having come to occupy the one spot in the Middle East that doesn't have any oil, the Jews did manage to discover natural gas, but a) it was directly underneath the Temple and b) it blew the place up?

I don't care if you think it was the "Fire of God" or not, it still sounds like God has a real sick sense of humor. :rolleyes:

I can't remember clearly. The sources that Gibbon cited said it was the fire of God, but he suggested a more naturalistic phenomenon.

It could have been a fairly small pocket of gas.

I don't think it actually blew the rebuild Temple apart--I think it was found early in the process and frightened the workers off.
 
I can't remember clearly. The sources that Gibbon cited said it was the fire of God, but he suggested a more naturalistic phenomenon.

It could have been a fairly small pocket of gas.

I don't think it actually blew the rebuild Temple apart--I think it was found early in the process and frightened the workers off.

Could it have just been propaganda established after Julian's death to claim signs of divine displeasure? That either there was no actual problem or something minor that wasn't resolved before Julian's death and the restoration of Christian domination brought the operation to the end.

Steve
 
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