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Hadrian's Decree of Expulsion of the Jews from Jerusalem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Rendel Harris
Rendel Harris
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Manchester, England
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No city has had so many desolations as Jerusalem, no land has experienced so many devastations. They are so many that it is not easy to register them all, nor to say which is exactly the fluctus decumanus that submerged most completely the national life and prosperity. We can, however, see that all the series of disasters have a similarity; each of them is written in terms of wholesale slaughter, deportation, and slavery; if at any time a decree of restoration is issued, the document is a palimpsest with the under-writing betraying a decree of exile.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 1926 , pp. 199 - 206
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1926

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1 For the correctness of our interpretation of ἐξ ἀπόπτου we may compare Hesychius, Ἄποπτον, πόρρωθεν ὁρώμενον, ἤ ἀθεώρητον.