I am now going to try to PROVE that at the TIME OF CHRIST, there were 6,000 Soldiers in the TENTH Legion in Jerusalem, and 4,000 Support Personnel.
WHY? Because as long as the Jews think there Model of the TEMPLE is Correct, this STALEMATE will continue.
QUOTE:
How many Roman soldiers were there in a legion?
There were over 5,000 soldiers in a legion. Each legion had its own number, name, badge and fortress. What were 6000 Roman soldiers called? A legion was nominally composed of 6,000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria.
Wikipedia
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I know how hard it is to read JOSEPHUS is to read. BECAUSE it was translated to ENGLISH, probably BEFORE the 1611 KING JAMES VERSION came into being. BUT I FOUND A more MODERN English Version. Makes it a lot easier to read. This is a Jewel, Starting in
QUOTE:
. . . However, the high priest did not wear these garments at other times, but a more plain habit; he only did it when he went into the most sacred part of the temple, which he did but once in a year, on that day when our custom is for all of us to keep a fast to God. And thus much concerning the city and the temple; but for the customs and laws hereto relating, we shall speak more accurately another time; for there remain a great many things thereto relating which have not been here touched upon.
8. Now as to the tower of Antonia, it was situated at the corner of two cloisters of the court of the temple; of that on the west {Coming from the West, by the Colonnades meeting at the Corner by the Tower of Antonia}, and that on the north {Covered Walkway from East Gate going north to the Tower of Antonia}; it was erected upon a rock of fifty cubits in height, and was on a great precipice; it was the work of king Herod, wherein he demonstrated his natural magnanimity. In the first place, the rock itself was covered over with smooth pieces of stone, from its foundation, both for ornament, and that any one who would either try to get up or to go down it might not be able to hold his feet upon it. Next to this, and before you come to the edifice of the tower itself, there was a wall three cubits high; but within that wall all the space of the tower of Antonia itself was built upon, to the height of forty cubits. The inward parts had the largeness and form of a palace, it being parted into all kinds of rooms and other conveniences, such as courts, and places for bathing, and broad spaces for camps; insomuch that, by having all conveniences that cities wanted, it might seem to be composed of several cities, but by its magnificence it seemed a palace. And as the entire structure resembled that of a tower, it contained also four other distinct towers at its four corners; whereof the others were but fifty cubits high; whereas that which lay upon the southeast corner was seventy cubits high, that from thence the whole temple might be viewed; but on the corner where it joined to the two cloisters of the temple, it had passages down to them both, through which the guard (for there always lay in this tower a Roman legion) went several ways among the cloisters, with their arms, on the Jewish festivals, in order to watch the people, that they might not there attempt to make any innovations; for the temple was a fortress that guarded the city, as was the tower of Antonia a guard to the temple; and in that tower were the guards of those three (14). There was also a peculiar fortress belonging to the upper city, which was Herod's palace; but for the hill Bezetha, it was divided from the tower Antonia, as we have already told you; and as that hill on which the tower of Antonia stood was the highest of these three, so did it adjoin to the new city, and was the only place that hindered the sight of the temple on the north. And this shall suffice at present to have spoken about the city and the walls about it, because I have proposed to myself to make a more accurate description of it elsewhere.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/flavius-josephus/war-of-the-jews/book-5/chapter-5.html
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This kind of Covered Walkway facing along the garden area, with a WALL along the east side of it.
Most likely going west to the Calvary Entrance pass the Stairs, up into Fortress Antonio, both sides of this Cloister Cover Walkway would have looked like this. On the side with on the east it says to other Coming of the bridge, and in, and up into the stair Fortress on the southeast corner of the Fortress.
I think that pretty much NAILS IT. That joke of that dinky Fortress Antonia is blown clean out of the Water.
WHY? Because as long as the Jews think there Model of the TEMPLE is Correct, this STALEMATE will continue.
QUOTE:
How many Roman soldiers were there in a legion?
There were over 5,000 soldiers in a legion. Each legion had its own number, name, badge and fortress. What were 6000 Roman soldiers called? A legion was nominally composed of 6,000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria.
Wikipedia
:END QUOTE.
I know how hard it is to read JOSEPHUS is to read. BECAUSE it was translated to ENGLISH, probably BEFORE the 1611 KING JAMES VERSION came into being. BUT I FOUND A more MODERN English Version. Makes it a lot easier to read. This is a Jewel, Starting in
- The Works of Flavius Josephus /
- War of the Jews /
- Book 5 /
- Chapter 5
- Paragraph 7
QUOTE:
. . . However, the high priest did not wear these garments at other times, but a more plain habit; he only did it when he went into the most sacred part of the temple, which he did but once in a year, on that day when our custom is for all of us to keep a fast to God. And thus much concerning the city and the temple; but for the customs and laws hereto relating, we shall speak more accurately another time; for there remain a great many things thereto relating which have not been here touched upon.
8. Now as to the tower of Antonia, it was situated at the corner of two cloisters of the court of the temple; of that on the west {Coming from the West, by the Colonnades meeting at the Corner by the Tower of Antonia}, and that on the north {Covered Walkway from East Gate going north to the Tower of Antonia}; it was erected upon a rock of fifty cubits in height, and was on a great precipice; it was the work of king Herod, wherein he demonstrated his natural magnanimity. In the first place, the rock itself was covered over with smooth pieces of stone, from its foundation, both for ornament, and that any one who would either try to get up or to go down it might not be able to hold his feet upon it. Next to this, and before you come to the edifice of the tower itself, there was a wall three cubits high; but within that wall all the space of the tower of Antonia itself was built upon, to the height of forty cubits. The inward parts had the largeness and form of a palace, it being parted into all kinds of rooms and other conveniences, such as courts, and places for bathing, and broad spaces for camps; insomuch that, by having all conveniences that cities wanted, it might seem to be composed of several cities, but by its magnificence it seemed a palace. And as the entire structure resembled that of a tower, it contained also four other distinct towers at its four corners; whereof the others were but fifty cubits high; whereas that which lay upon the southeast corner was seventy cubits high, that from thence the whole temple might be viewed; but on the corner where it joined to the two cloisters of the temple, it had passages down to them both, through which the guard (for there always lay in this tower a Roman legion) went several ways among the cloisters, with their arms, on the Jewish festivals, in order to watch the people, that they might not there attempt to make any innovations; for the temple was a fortress that guarded the city, as was the tower of Antonia a guard to the temple; and in that tower were the guards of those three (14). There was also a peculiar fortress belonging to the upper city, which was Herod's palace; but for the hill Bezetha, it was divided from the tower Antonia, as we have already told you; and as that hill on which the tower of Antonia stood was the highest of these three, so did it adjoin to the new city, and was the only place that hindered the sight of the temple on the north. And this shall suffice at present to have spoken about the city and the walls about it, because I have proposed to myself to make a more accurate description of it elsewhere.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/flavius-josephus/war-of-the-jews/book-5/chapter-5.html
:END QUOTE.
This kind of Covered Walkway facing along the garden area, with a WALL along the east side of it.
Most likely going west to the Calvary Entrance pass the Stairs, up into Fortress Antonio, both sides of this Cloister Cover Walkway would have looked like this. On the side with on the east it says to other Coming of the bridge, and in, and up into the stair Fortress on the southeast corner of the Fortress.
I think that pretty much NAILS IT. That joke of that dinky Fortress Antonia is blown clean out of the Water.
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