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Josephus was telling the truth about the Temple or if he was "pulling his punches" and that he greatly exaggerated his descrip tions of the Temple of Herod.
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In NT times, the sanctuary shekel was equivalent to the Attic tetradrachmon, a four-drachma piece (Josephus, Ant 3:195) or to the stater of Mt 17:27. The half-shekel tax is called the didrachmon in Josephus, Ant 18:312, and in Philo, Heres 186.
Oct 30, 2015 · This chapter provides a side-by-side comparison of the temple in Judean War and Jewish Antiquities indicating that the two portrayals are complementary, with the later account in Jewish Antiquities providing supplementary details to the earlier version in Judean War.
Josephus (Ant. xvi. 6) has preserved some interesting letters from Roman proconsuls and from Augustus himself, to Cyrene, Ephesus, and other communities, directing that the Jews should be allowed to forward their contributions to the Temple without hindrance.
If it was ordained in advance that the Jews would pollute the Temple, how can they be held accountable? Did the Lord cause the destruction to fulfill a pre-ordained plan or instead to punish contemporary sins? Josephus either wants it both ways, or else oscillates between them as events dictate.
The first veil was ten cubits every way, and this they spread over the pillars which parted the temple, and kept the most holy place concealed within; and this veil was that which made this part not visible to any.
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When they said thus, Zorobabel and Jeshua the high priest, and the heads of the families of the Israelites, replied to them, that it was impossible for them to permit them to be their partners, whilst they [only] had been appointed to build that temple at first by Cyrus, and now by Darius, although it was indeed lawful for them to come and ...
