5 Best Of Caligula Statue In Jerusalem Release Date. The only place in the roman world where the statue of caligula did not appear was in jerusalem. However caligula issued a second order to have his statue erected in the temple of jerusalem.
He sent petronius to syria to lead an army into judea to force the jews to accept this statue. He became very cruel started demanding to be worshipped as a god and announced that a statue of himself depicted as zeus would be placed in the jerusalem temple for jews to worship. Imperial images in jerusalem.
A leading theory is that this refers to the roman standards being placed in the ruins of the temple after titus destroys jerusalem in 70 ad.
This herod is the one who put st. Imperial images in jerusalem. Philo also quotes from a lengthy letter that king herod agrippa i sent to caligula during the crisis regarding his statue. He thought of bringing the busts of the emperor tiberius caesar which were on the standards into the city whereas our torah forbids us even the making of images.
