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| Title: Tempel und Tempelzerstörung. Untersuchungen zu den theologischen und ideologischen Faktoren im ersten jüdisch-römischen Krieg (66-74 n. Chr.) Secondary Title: NTOA 11 Type: Generic Year: 1989 Abstract: "In December 69 CE the main temple of the Roman Empire - the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome - was set on fire and plundered in the war between the Vitellians and the Flavians (see Josephus, Jewish War 4:645 ff). In his comprehensive studies of Jewish and Roman ideological involvement with the Jerusalem Temple during the Jewish War of 66/70 (74) CE, Schwier suggests that the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in order to compensate for their own ideological disaster. Schwier's work was suvervised by Gerd Theißen and submitted to the University of Heidelberg as a thesis. // The slightly revised version of a doctoral dissertation directed by G. Theissen and accepted in 1988 by the Evangelical theological faculty at the University of Heidelberg, this volume first analyzes the course of events in the Roman-Jewish war of A.D. 66-74: the escalation in A.D. 66, Vespasian's campaigns in A.D. 67 and 68, the power struggles in Jerusalem until the beginning of the siege of the city, etc. Next it examines the theological and ideological factors related to the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, first from the Jewish side (the holiness and purity of the Temple, the expectation that God would enter into holy war, etc.). and the from the Roman side (pax romana, the divine guarantee of Roman rule, etc.). Finally it shows how the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple can be viewed from the perspective of ideological and theological conflicts between Jews and Romans. In an excursus Schwier date the fall of Masada to the spring of A.D. 74." Keywords: History of the Judean War (66-73) |