By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from ... their independent existence under Roman law. The temple in Jerusalem Although each Jewish community worshipped at its own ...

Josephus, for example, this historian we have is from a Jerusalem ... of the temple.... Nonetheless, it's clear among all the numerous groups within the Jewish community of the 1st century ...

Woe to you, O Jerusalem—and woe to the historian who writes about your fall to the Romans ... He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face of evil. On the first day of the Republican ...

Gold and silver coins and jewelry dated from the seventh century were discovered ... finds from the First Temple Period in this area, a much earlier time in Jerusalem’s history, so discovering ...

The Seleucids captured the holy Temple of Jerusalem ... Writing in the first century A.D., Jewish historian Josephus recorded the brutal plundering of Jerusalem and treatment of Jewish dissidents ...

Israeli officials recently announced the discovery of an unusual oil lamp dating to the fourth century ... of Olives in Jerusalem. The artifact appears to reference the Second Temple, though ...