54 BCE
|
|
The days of the Temple are numbered.
Phase 4: ROME
 | The Roman Crassus plunders the Temple treasury.
|
|
20 BCE |
|
| Herod the Great starts to rebuild the Temple and enlarge it.
 | But he places a Roman eagle over the gate and some
outraged Jews shatter it. |
| Herod has them summarily executed and never finishes the
building work. |
|
|
70 CE
(on
the
9th of Av
again!) |
|
| Titus’s legions storm Jerusalem and level the city and the temple.
| The Jewish zealots make their last stand against the Romans
at the Hill garrison of Masada.
|
| 1000 of them, including women and children hold out against
a 15,000 strong Roman army for 2 years. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plunder from the Temple - Arch of Titus, Rome |
73 CE
|
|
| The Romans take Masada and the zealots commit mass suicide rather than be taken as
slaves. |
|
