Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon ...

They slaughtered animals, they took the animal carcasses on the altar, roasted the animals ... Could people who weren't Jewish go to the Temple? Most temples in antiquity encouraged the respect ...

They slaughtered animals, they took the animal carcasses on the altar, roasted the animals ... Could people who weren't Jewish go to the Temple? Most temples in antiquity encouraged the respect ...

Judaism: the religion of Jewish people ... They cleaned up the temple and put a new sacred lamp back on the altar, but when they tried to relight it, they realised the Greeks had thrown away ...

The Syrians defiled the sacred Temple, calling for an altar to Zeus to be constructed there and for pigs to be slaughtered on the site in violation of Jewish law. According to Jewish tradition ...