Timeline for This line in Antiochus Strategos account on The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 AD, is theological or historical event?
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| Nov 11 at 8:41 | vote | accept | Abhishek Yadav | ||
| Nov 10 at 4:03 | history | edited | mgkrebbs |
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| Nov 10 at 2:16 | answer | added | SPavel♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 10 at 1:55 | comment | added | SPavel♦ | It's a confusing quote but it's saying "in the same manner as the walls of Jericho were brought down, so too did God humble the Persians by sending Heraclius against them." The author is telling us about the events at Jerusalem by way of drawing a parallel between them and the Biblical story of Jericho. | |
| Nov 9 at 22:13 | comment | converted from answer | Greybeard | If you are referring to the collapse of the Walls of Jericho, or a siege that took place at the time and as described in the Bible, then that story is simply propaganda. There is no truth in it. from Wikipedia The Fall of Jericho >According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls [for a week]. Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, the biblical Jericho, have failed to find any traces of a city at the relevant time (end of the Bronze Age), which has led to a consensus among scholars that the story ha | |
| Nov 9 at 18:58 | comment | added | John Dallman | Antiochos Strategos may have been the same person as Antiochus of Palestine but this is unproven. | |
| Nov 9 at 14:50 | comment | added | Brian Z | Wikipedia says that Heraclius likely conquered Jerusalem in 630 CE. Is that what you're asking? | |
| Nov 9 at 14:03 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Nov 9 at 12:30 | history | asked | Abhishek Yadav | CC BY-SA 4.0 |