When Yosa Meshita Took the Temple Menorah
When Yosa Meshita Took the Temple Menorah
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The University of Chicago Press
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This essay examines a short tradition preserved in Genesis Rabbah, a fifth-century CE homiletical midrash, that explains how the golden menorah (and by implication, other temple vessels) fell into Roman hands at the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Part of a larger rabbinic cycle of stories reflecting on the destruction of Jerusalem, this tale depicts a...
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When Yosa Meshita Took the Temple Menorah
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TN_cdi_uchicagopress_journals_704686
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_uchicagopress_journals_704686
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1094-2076
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2325-5404
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10.1086/704686
