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The Jerusalem Temple that Titus destroys, which Jiang says medieval Catholic teaching read as vengeance after Jesus's betrayal.
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Second temple
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is the is the year when the romans burned down the second temple okay titus is the emperor and he burned down the second..."
Key Notes
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The Jerusalem worship center whose destruction forces a shift in Jewish religious authority.
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The rebuilt Jerusalem temple financed or authorized under Persian rule in Jiang's reading.
evidence
Jiang dates Titus's vengeance to the year 70 and says Christians read the destruction of the second temple as vengeance for the crucifixion.
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Jiang summarizes the official Christian story as original sin leading to crucifixion and then to Roman revenge on the Jews through the destruction of the Second Temple, while also stressing that this story immediately creates moral and logical problems.
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Jiang says Titus is the general who destroys the Jewish rebellion and burns the Second Temple, and he adds that the Catholic Church taught people in Dante's period to see this as vengeance for the Jews' betrayal of Jesus.
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Jiang dates Statius to the era of Titus, shortly after Jesus's death and after the destruction of the Second Temple, to emphasize how early this Virgilian literary devotion sits inside Christian chronology.
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The Roman destruction of the Second Temple is treated as the event that shifts Judaism from temple sacrifice to rabbinic law.
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Cyrus is considered a messiah by Jews because he allows return to Jerusalem and finances the temple rebuilding.
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The rebuilding of the Second Temple is the happiest moment in Jewish history in Jiang's reading.
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Artaxerxes' letter authorizes Ezra to go to Jerusalem and fund worship at the temple.
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"...is the is the year when the romans burned down the second temple okay titus is the emperor and he burned down the second..."
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"...so what happens in the year 70 the romans destroy the second temple and you know modern day history that's that's what's led to..."
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"a huge army and they burned down the second temple and this revenge for um for the jews betraying jesus and so if you're..."
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"keep on going now marvel here at what i show to you with titus afterward it hurried toward avenging vengeance for the ancient sin..."
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"...general that will destroy the jewish rebellion and burn down the second temple okay and this is and and the catholic church teaches people..."
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"...This is important because Titus was the one who destroyed the temple, okay? The second temple of the Jews. Okay, so he's a very..."
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"...vicious people. In 70, the year 70, they burned down the Second Temple to destroy the morale of the Jews. And because they destroyed..."
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"So when the Second Temple is destroyed, what happened is that the Jews, or many Jews will choose to convert to Christianity. Okay. Because..."
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"...different factions. But the major characteristic is that they've gone from temple worship to worship of their law. Okay. The law of Moses. And..."
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"...bring all the Jews back to Jerusalem, and build the third temple, and usher in the Messianic Age. Okay. And that's what they believe..."
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"...back to Jerusalem, but he also finances the rebuilding of the temple, okay? But when this happens, when they go back, and try to..."
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"When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments were stationed to praise the Lord with..."
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