November
17

9CE:  Birthdate of Titus Flavius
Vespasianus, better known as Vespasian, who as a Roman General and then Emperor
put down the Judean Revolt which included the destruction of the Second Temple.

284: Diocletian is proclaimed empe…

November
16

42
BCE: Birthdate of Tiberius, 2nd Roman emperor. The stepson of Augustus reigned
from 14 to 37 C.E. A competent general with a sour disposition, Tiberius came
to the thrown through the efforts of his pushy mother. Tiberius treatment of
th…

November 11

603 BCE (7th of Kislev): King
Jehoiakim burned the scroll which had been dictated by the prophet Jeremiah to
Barcuh ben Heriah.

518 BCE: A delegation of Babylonian
Jews arrived in Jerusalem to inquire from the prophet Zechariah whether th…

A Pentecostal reflection on Thomas C. Oden’s claim that the first Pentecost took place in the home of an African Jewish woman.

November 7

305 B.C.E.: Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who
had fought by the side of Alexander the Great, became King of Egypt.  Alexander’s empire broke into three parts
after his death.  Jerusalem and Judea
came under the sway of the Ptolemy…