With
thousands of archaeological sites, Jerusalem
is one of the most excavated cities on the planet and to walk its streets is to
walk through thousand years of history. This ancient city has been fought over
more than any other place. It has been conquered, destroyed and rebuilt many
times and Hadrian played a significant role in Jerusalem’s physical
development. In AD 130, on his grand
tour of the eastern part of the Roman
Empire, Hadrian visited the devastated city of Jerusalem, accompanied by
his young lover Antinous. He established a new city on the site of the old one
which was left in ruins after the First
Roman-Jewish War of 66-73. The new city was to be named Colonia Aelia Capitolina. Aelia s derived from the emperor’s family name
(Aelius, from the gens Aelia), and Capitolina refers to
the cult of the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter,
Juno and Minerva). Go to this great article and see lots of fantastic
pictures at -- http://etc.ancient.eu/2014/11/07/exploring-aelia-capitolina-hadrians-jerusalem/
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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