“Hadrian … a second Antiochus”
Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ and Emperor Hadrian. Part Two: “Hadrian … a second Antiochus” by Damien F. Mackey “As Perowne emphasizes in his biography, Hadrian seems to have perceived himself as a second Antiochus”. But maybe Hadrian simply was Antiochus! Hermann Detering has written of further (to what was noted in Part One of this series) parallelism between Antiochus ‘Epiphanes’ (so-called IV) and the emperor Hadrian. (Naturally, I would not accept the author’s conventional BC or AD dates as given below): http://radikalkritik.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mk13-JHC-1.pdf THE SYNOPTIC APOCALYPSE (MARK 13 PAR): A DOCUMENT FROM THE TIME OF BAR KOCHBA …. Bar Kochba was the leader of a Jewish underground movement, which was founded in 127, the year of Hadrian’s prohibition of circumcision, and in which the Zealot-Maccabean traditions of the rebellion put down by the Romans in ...