Comments on: Vespasianus: Celebrating Emperor’s Birth Anniversary http://themoderatevoice.com/27427/vespasianus-celebrating-emperors-birth-anniversary/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: swaraaj http://themoderatevoice.com/27427/vespasianus-celebrating-emperors-birth-anniversary/comment-page-1/#comment-177816 swaraaj Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:39:30 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/27427/vespasianus-celebrating-emperors-birth-anniversary/#comment-177816 Holly has sent interesting details about Vespasianus and Jews. "Vespasian is frequently mentioned in rabbinical literature, the war, with which certain mourning customs were associated, being called 'polemos shel Aspasyanos' (So?ah ix. 14), and 'Vespasian and his comrades' (i.e., his sons) being accused of enriching themselves from the treasures of Israel (Midr. Teh. xvii. 2). <br><br>"When Vespasian came to Jerusalem he encamped outside the wall and made propositions of peace to the Jews which were rejected. According to Ab. R. N., Recension B, § 6, certain Jews in the city communicated treacherously with Vespasian by means of arrows; but this statement confuses Vespasian with Titus, while other passages confound him with Hadrian, or even with Nebuchadnezzar. 'One of these will destroy the holy Temple, and that one is the miscreant Vespasian' (Midrash ha-Gadol on Gen. xxv. 23, ed. Schechter; in Gen. R. lxvii. the name of Hadrian is substituted). <br><br>"The passage 'I have not despised them' was interpreted as meaning, 'I have not despised them in the days of Vespasian' (Sifra, xxvi. 44; Esth. R., beginning); and it is clear from a statement of Jerome on Joel iii. 3 that several haggadicpassages were likewise regarded as allusions to Vespasian."<br><br>More here: <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view_friendly.jsp?artid=64&letter=V" rel="nofollow">http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view_friendly...</a> Holly has sent interesting details about Vespasianus and Jews. “Vespasian is frequently mentioned in rabbinical literature, the war, with which certain mourning customs were associated, being called 'polemos shel Aspasyanos' (So?ah ix. 14), and 'Vespasian and his comrades' (i.e., his sons) being accused of enriching themselves from the treasures of Israel (Midr. Teh. xvii. 2).

“When Vespasian came to Jerusalem he encamped outside the wall and made propositions of peace to the Jews which were rejected. According to Ab. R. N., Recension B, § 6, certain Jews in the city communicated treacherously with Vespasian by means of arrows; but this statement confuses Vespasian with Titus, while other passages confound him with Hadrian, or even with Nebuchadnezzar. 'One of these will destroy the holy Temple, and that one is the miscreant Vespasian' (Midrash ha-Gadol on Gen. xxv. 23, ed. Schechter; in Gen. R. lxvii. the name of Hadrian is substituted).

“The passage 'I have not despised them' was interpreted as meaning, 'I have not despised them in the days of Vespasian' (Sifra, xxvi. 44; Esth. R., beginning); and it is clear from a statement of Jerome on Joel iii. 3 that several haggadicpassages were likewise regarded as allusions to Vespasian.”

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