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| Title: Das reinigende Feuer. Die Zerstörung des Zweiten Tempels in der Darstellung des Josephus Secondary Title: BiKi Volume: 53 Pages: 73-78 Type: Journal Article Year: 1998 Abstract: Harrington, Daniel J. in: NTAb 43.1 (1999), 121-122: "In his account of the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70 Josephus exonerated the Romans and placed the blame on the rebels as lawless robbers who profaned the sanctuary and trusted in weapons rather than in God. He believed that God abandoned the Second Temple as he did the First Temple, and interpreted its destruction as a purification".
Hieke, Thomas in: OTA 21.3 (1998), 510: "Josephus was an eyewitness of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. His account of that event is marked by the attempt to exculpate Titus and the Romans from the responsibility for the ruin of Jerusalem and the Temple, a tendency contradicted by other historical sources (Cassius Dio; Sulpicius Severus). Conversely, Josephus wants to redirect the wrath of his fellow Jews from Titus towards the rebels and Zealots who had dominated the people by violence. Josephus accuses the rebels of profanation of the Temple and of mistrust in God. God is now on the side of the Romans, according to Josephus. He interprets the destruction of the Second Temple in the light of the ruin of the First and makes the sins of the Jews responsible for both events. The burning of the Temple is a fire of purification (see War 4.323; 4.388; 5.19; 6.110,250-251)". Keywords: History of the Judean War (66-73) |