GUEST POST: JOSEPHUS VS MUSLIM LIARS

JOSEPHUS VS. MUSLIM LIARS
a GUEST POST from Mr. Cohen

NOTE: The first four quotes shown below are from Flavius Josephus,

who was born in year 37 CE and was still alive in 81 CE.

In a previous blog post, I quoted Tacticus, the ancient Roman historian who said that the Temple of the Jews was in Jerusalem.

My intention was to refute Muslim propagandists who falsely claim that there was never a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

Now I present four quotes from Josephus, another ancient Roman historian who mentioned at least four times that the Temple of the Jews was in Jerusalem: ____________________________________________________________
“At this point Crassus arrived to take over the governorship of Syria.
For the campaign against the Parthians he removed all the gold from the Sanctuary in Jerusalem…”

SOURCE:The Jewish War (chapter 1, page 51) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, 1984, published by Penguin Classics, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209

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“Gaius Caesar’s accession to power so completely turned his head that he wished to be thought of and addressed as a god, stripped his country of its noblest men, and proceeded to lay sacrilegious hands on Judea. He ordered Petronius to march with an army to Jerusalem and erect his statues in the Temple: if the Jews refused them, he was to execute the objectors and enslave all the rest of the population.”

SOURCE:The Jewish War (chapter 7, pages 139 to 140) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, 1984, published by Penguin Classics, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209

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“…Cumanus, whose governorship was marked by disturbances and further disaster to the Jews.
The people had assembled in Jerusalem for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Roman cohort stood on guard over the Temple colonnade, armed men always being on duty at the feasts to forestall any rioting by the vast crowds.”

SOURCE:The Jewish War (chapter 7, pages 143 to 144) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, 1984, published by Penguin Classics, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209

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“… the Jerusalem magistrates, rushing out clad in sackcloth and with ashes poured on their heads, besought them to return and not to provoke the Romans to attack Jerusalem by reprisals on the Samaritans: they must spare their country and their Sanctuary, and their own wives and children…”

SOURCE:The Jewish War (chapter 7, page 145) by Flavius Josephus, translated by G.A. Williamson, 1984, published by Penguin Classics, ISBN: 0140444203 & 978-0140444209

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Cornelius Tacticus, the famous Roman historian who lived
from year 56 CE (approximately) to year 120 CE said:

“Much of Judea is thickly studded with villages,

and the Jews have towns as well.
Their capital is Jerusalem.
Here stood their Temple with its boundless riches.”

MODERN SOURCE OF QUOTE:

The Western World (page 141) by Pearson Custom Publishing, 2009 CE

ORIGINAL SOURCE OF QUOTE:

The Histories by Tacitus, The Jews (Book 5), paragraph 8 of 13.
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CONCLUSION: The Bible and Tacticus and Josephus all say that the Jewish Temple was in Jerusalem. People who claim that there was never a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem are LIARS!

PS: Tacticus and Josephus made numerous mention of: Jews, Levites, Pharisees, Essenes, Idumaeans, Syrians, Sicarii, and Romans in the Holy Land, but they never mention the Palestinians, because there were no Palestinians in the times of Tacticus and Josephus.