This interview makes absolutely no sense. It's all over the place but goes nowhere. And once again we have the old "I have pictures" claim (although he's extremely vague about what he has pictures *of*) but he *never shows any pictures*.
There's nothing there. This has been discussed endlessly. No one claimed anything was in the Vatican until a fictional story in a Chabad youth magazine in the 1970's mentioned it off-hand, and now it's something that everyone "knows" is true with zero evidence and zero possibility.
Years and years ago I went to a history lecture on the subject and here's the simple debunking. The Vatican was first built in the mid 300's as Pete's Basilica. Rome was sacked in 390, 410 and 455. Three times the city was conquered and looted. Therefore, if anything from the Temple was in the city, it was carried off by the marauders who, not caring that they were Temple artifacts, would've melted them down to make them easier to transport. Therefore it's possible to believe stories of Chazal seeing artifacts in the 200's and early 300's in Rome but after that it's all gone.
The walls of the Vatican were built much later than that (in the 800's) and the current St. Peter's even later (in the 1500's). The popes didn't use it until the 1300's and the buildings date mostly to after that.
This interview makes absolutely no sense. It's all over the place but goes nowhere. And once again we have the old "I have pictures" claim (although he's extremely vague about what he has pictures *of*) but he *never shows any pictures*.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing there. This has been discussed endlessly. No one claimed anything was in the Vatican until a fictional story in a Chabad youth magazine in the 1970's mentioned it off-hand, and now it's something that everyone "knows" is true with zero evidence and zero possibility.
Years and years ago I went to a history lecture on the subject and here's the simple debunking.
ReplyDeleteThe Vatican was first built in the mid 300's as Pete's Basilica.
Rome was sacked in 390, 410 and 455. Three times the city was conquered and looted.
Therefore, if anything from the Temple was in the city, it was carried off by the marauders who, not caring that they were Temple artifacts, would've melted them down to make them easier to transport.
Therefore it's possible to believe stories of Chazal seeing artifacts in the 200's and early 300's in Rome but after that it's all gone.
The walls of the Vatican were built much later than that (in the 800's) and the current St. Peter's even later (in the 1500's). The popes didn't use it until the 1300's and the buildings date mostly to after that.
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