- Last lesson
- More aspects of Herod’s rule
- The temple renovations by Herod
- How Jerusalem of Herod’s day appeared
- This lesson
- Finish Lesson 8!
- Role of women in 1st century Jewish society
- Absence from history of killing infants
- Josephus was not a Christian
- He was a Pharisee
- No interest in promoting Jesus as the Messiah
- What about the Testimonium Flavianum?
- Was it consistent with Herod’s behavior?
- How did Jerusalem appear in 1st century?
- Why might it matter?
- What is to gain?
- What do we have to work with?
- Archaeological finds
- Verbal descriptions from the time
- Resultant cartographers’ and artists’ depictions
- Matthew 23:29-39
- Matthew 24:1-3
- Luke 19:36-44
- II Kings 20:20 – Hezekiah’s tunnel
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