Jerusalem - Valley of the Cross עמק המצלבה
- Page 2
6 Oct 2004 - 3 May 2005 - 10 Sep 2004
The History:
Before Italians came to Judea and Samaria, the people here never used cross for punishment.
Italians came to Jerusalem in 63 BCE. They brought with them brutality that was not known here before.
They put on cross rebels and escaping slaves in Jerusalem, as they did in every place they visited in Europe, Asia and Africa.
They took the trees for crosses from this place, the valley East to Ram Hill (Givat Ram).
Yeshua from Nazareth became the most famous man ever crucified by them. The man that ordered to put him on the cross was Italian - Pontius Pilatus. He did it not because he cared about the first commandment of the Jewish God, but because he had the filling that Yeshua will bring rebel in the Jewish Province (Judea and Samaria) and may be further.
Despite the impression that this torture made on the world, Yeshua from Nazareth was not the last Jew tortured by Italians, while Italians themselves became quite well because of this event.
Relevant links:
http://members.verizon.net/vze3xycv/Jerusalem/confPompey.htm
Marcus Scaurus, general under Pompey, was sent by Pompey to Judaea and intervened in the siege of Jerusalem.
Shortly later Pompey came to and sieged Jerusalem in 63 BCE.
…
Pompey (106-48 BC) Roman general and statesman.
http://new-birth.net/contemporary/hr120.htm
In the year 26, Pilate arrived at Caesarea, to start his work as the administrator.
…
This, then, was Pilate: Trying to keep the country calm, but acting with all his brutality, when his personal interest was affected.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Salon/2385/pilate.html
Pontius Pilatus - considering who this tough, practical and often brutal man was,
a hard-nosed pragmatist who did not hesitate to use torture,
murder and horrific executions to maintain control
in a land of simmering rebellion,
his final status as a saint in the Coptic Church is highly ironic.
Still, as the Nazis later said, he was just obeying orders
…
But most Romans regarded Christianity as both Jewish
and suspiciously seditious - everyone knew that its founder
had been crucified by the Roman authorities
and crucifixion was a punishment reserved for rebels and escaped slaves.
What happened to Pontius Pilatus?
http://new-birth.net/contemporary/hr120.htm
... others say that he was exiled to what today is France, etc. Some churches even canonized him as a saint, together with his wife, Claudia Procula.
It seems that the Europeans learnt nothing and today, like then,
they honor the murderer that purposely killed people in schools and busses with the Nobel Prize,
while his victims are condemned that they do not agree to let him kill more.
20 Dec 2004 - 6 Apr 2004
3 May 2005 - 20 Aug 2005
26 Sep 2004
1 Oct 2005
Page:
1
2
3
Now, like the echo from those years of Italian oppression,
next to the monastery, 2 scouts groups:
Metzada
Bnei Akiba (the followers of Rabbi Akiba)
Links about Metzada and Rabbi Akiba:
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/gloss/#m
Metzada (Massada, Mezada, Metsada) - Massada (from the Greek name) -
a mountain fortress overlooking the shores of the Dead Sea
where Jewish insurgents held out for three years against the Romans
after the fall of Jerusalem in 70C.E. and then took their own lives.
Metzada has remained a symbol of Jewish heroism.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/akiba.html
Rabbi Akiba was active in the Bar Kokhba rebellion against Rome, 132-135 C.E.. He believed that Bar Kokhba was the Moshiach (messiah), though some other rabbis openly ridiculed him for that belief (the Talmud records another rabbi as saying, "Akiba, grass will grow in your cheeks and still the son of David will not have come.") When the Bar Kokhba rebellion failed, Rabbi Akiba was taken by the Roman authorities and tortured to death.
Page:
1
2
3
Pictures of Jerusalem - Flowers of Jerusalem MAIN PAGE
(c) josephnow@yahoo.com
Created: 12 December 2003
Updated: 8 October 2005
