Herod’s golden eagle on the Temple gate: a reconsideration
Flavius Josephus reports that Herod the Great erected a golden eagle over the great gate of the Jerusalem Temple (JW 1:648-55; Ant 17:149-63). Sometime before his death, two doctors of the law convinced their disciples to pull the eagle down, for it ‘had been erected in defiance of their fathers’ la...
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2021
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Journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-44 |
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