Before Jerusalem Fell

By North, Gary

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Title:	Before Jerusalem Fell
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Subject:	Philosophy, Theology, Literature
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Preface: I have several reasons for wanting to see this book in print. The first reason is my technical interest in the methods of dating primary source documents on the basis of their internal evidence and external evidence from other sources. The accurate dating of historical documents is crucial to our knowledge of the events of any period of history. If we do not date our primary source documents accurately, we cannot expect to gain an accurate understanding of history. There have been too many ill-fated attempts to compare ?contemporary? events in different ancient societies based on inaccurate chronologies. The pieces of the chronological jigsaw puzzle do not match, and therefore must be damaged by the historian in order to jam them together. My theory of chronology is simple: ?If we don?t know when something happened, we don?t know how or why it happened.?

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publisher?s Preface by Gary North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ix Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...xvii PART I: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS l. Revelation Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...3 2. The Approach to the Question of Dating . . . . . . . . 17 PART II: THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE 3. Introduction to the External Evidence . . . . . . . . . 41 4. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 5. Clement of Alexandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...68 6. Additional External Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 PART III: THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE 7. The Role of Internal Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 8. The Theme of Revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 9. The Temporal Expectation of the Author . . . . . . . . 133 10. The Identity of the Sixth King . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 11. The Contemporary Integrity of the Temple . . . . . . . 165 12. The Role of Nero Caesar.. . . . . . . . . . . . ...193 13. The Role of Jewish Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 14. The Looming Jewish War... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 PART IV: ALLEGED DOMITIANIC EVIDENCES EXAMINED 15. Introduction to Domitianic Evidences . . . . . . . . . . 259 16. The Role of Emperor Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 17. The Persecution of Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 18. The Nero Redivivus Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...300 19. The Condition of the Seven Churches . . . . . . . . . . 318