Posted on 11/03/2015 7:50:50 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
A recent discovery by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem’s City of David may reveal the answer to one of archaeology's most enduring mysteries: the location of the Greek Acra citadel. The exact location of the famous stronghold built by Antiochus IV, to control Jerusalem and monitor activity on the Temple Mount, has long been unknown due to the paucity of architectural remains that can be traced to the Greek presence in Jerusalem. Over the past 100 years of archaeological research in Jerusalem, numerous theories have been put forth identifying the location of the Acra, which was eventually overtaken by the Hasmoneans.
The Book of Maccabees addresses the location of the Acra, stating: “And they built the City of David with a great and strong wall, and with strong towers, and made it a fortress [Greek: Acra] for them: And they placed there a sinful nation, wicked men, and they fortified themselves therein.†Additionally, the historian Josephus Flavius wrote of the Arca in “Antiquities of the Jews.†“...and when he had overthrown the city walls, he built a citadel [Greek: Acra] in the lower part of the city, for the place was high, and overlooked the temple; on which account he fortified it with high walls and towers, and put into it a garrison of Macedonians,†Flavius wrote.
At a Tuesday morning press conference outside the Old City Wall’s at the City of David’s Givati parking lot, where excavations have been conducted for over a decade, researchers said they have finally exposed evidence of the Acra citadel on the City of David hill...
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2 Thessalonians 2: 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein *. 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
My 20th Great Grandmother:
Joan Acre Plantagenet
Birth MAY 1272 • Acre, Israel
Death 23 APR 1307 • Clare, Suffolk, England
Seriously? Did she marry a crusader?
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12535626
http://www.geni.com/people/Joan-of-Acre/5366053834650040358
Daughter of one. She was born on a Crusade. Her mother was Eleanor Castile: Birth 1244 - Castile, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain, Death 29 NOV 1290 - Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. Her father was Edward I Plantagenet: Birth 17 JUN 1239 - Westminster, London, England; Death 7 JUL 1307 - Burgh On Sands, Cumberland, Eng, England. When you are the King you get to take your wife on a Crusade.
This is an interesting book in itself.
Part of the Catholic Bible but not the protestant Bibles or the Jewish Torah.
The ancient Jews who decided what books would be included in the Torah decided it and others in the Catholic Apocrypha where written too late.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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There are many reasons that our canon(izers) in Judaism did not include, one being that it would be a blatant signal to the then-ruling Romans that the Jews were itchin’ to revolt (as they did against the Assyrian Greeks) and religiously, because the Hasmoneans, a priestly class (Kohain class, sub-segment of the tribe of Levi,) took over the kingship after the successful revolt. A Kohain/Levite could not be the king. They are a bitter-sweet story after the revolt. Mostly bitter the way the Jewish leadership evolved under Greco-Roman rule.
Perhaps the most significant proof offered by this discovery is the FACT that the Jews lived in and controlled Jerusalem (though an alien invader took over for a while), and that THERE WAS A JEWISH TEMPLE there.
Not that I or any person with sense would deny it, but this is for the Musloid arseholes: ONCE AGAIN, YOU ARE PROVEN WRONG!
Exactly!
Not currently, but it is included, along with the rest of the Apocrypha, in my (reprint) copy of the 1611 King James. The Apocrypha was also included in several other early Protestant Bibles. Good supplemental reading for the most part, though not Canonical.
Goodspeed's Apocrypha is a good edition, if anyone feels the urge to read these excluded books.
http://www.livescience.com/52671-greek-citadel-unearthed-jerusalem.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/03/us-archaeology-jerusalem-idUSKCN0SS1GD20151103
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