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    Titus' Siege of Jerusalem

    Titus' Siege of Jerusalem

    The Roman's laid siege to Jerusalem on 14 April 70 AD during Passover. Although several Roman legions were involved (XII, XV, V) along with auxiliaries, the Roman generals relied on divisions amongst the Jews to win the battle. It worked.

    His father's accession to the Roman throne left the war against the Jews to Titus. He was not a very experienced general, but his assistant was Tiberius Julius Alexander, who had been governor of Judaea in 46-48 and knew how to fight a war. Titus' own quality was that the new emperor, his father, could trust him.

    His father's strategy, to allow the Jews in Jerusalem to destroy themselves, had been successful. Besides the Zealots of Eleazar son of Simon and the private army of John of Gischala, a new leader had come to power, Simon bar Giora ("son of the proselyte"?). He was supported by men from Idumea, the southern part of Judaea that the Romans had reconquered only recently. John and Simon had different agendas. The first strove only for political freedom and minted silver coins with the legend "Freedom of Zion". Simon, on the other hand, stood at the head of a messianic movement; his copper coins have the legend "Redemption of Zion".

    On 14 April 70, during Passover, Titus laid siege to Jerusalem. To the northeast of the old city, on Mount Scopus, the legions XII Fulminata (a new addition from Syria) and XV Apollinaris shared a large camp; V Macedonica was camped at a short distance. When X Fretensis arrived from Syria, it occupied the Mount of Olives, in front of the Temple. The soldiers of this legion had a special incentive to fight: they had been defeated by the Zealots in 66, and wanted revenge.

    Auxiliaries had been sent by two petty kingdoms on the Upper Euphrates, Commagene and Emesa; an Arab sheik, who felt a deep hatred for the Jews, had joined the Romans with his warriors; and from Italy arrived many adventurers - veterans from the defeated armies of Galba and Otho. The besieged did not stand a chance against this army.

    During this same Passover, Eleazar allowed all inhabitants to perform their religious duties in the Temple. The festival, however, was spoilt by John's men, who took swords with them and forced Eleazar's Zealots into surrender.


    Of course the Jews eventually united to fight the Romans, but by then it was too late.

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    Thank you. We have two fasts every year commemorating these events.

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    It was a pretty vicious campaign.
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    Alvays vars and persecutions against zee jews ... here by jews. Oy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    It was a pretty vicious campaign.
    The Romans didn't play around.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    Alvays the vars and persecutions against zee jews. Oy.
    Totally unrelated. There was a famous revolt in what is now Britain a few years before and a revolt in what is now Germany and the Netherlands while Vespasian was besieging Jerusalem.
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