Josephus, War 1.648-655; Ant 17.149-63. On this, see inter alia: Albert Baumgarten, 'Herod's Eagle', in Aren M. Maeir, Jodi Magness and Lawrence H. Schiffman (eds), 'Go Out and Study the Land' (Judges 18:2): Archaeological, Historical and Textual Studies in Honor of Hanan Eshel (JSJ Suppl. 148; Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 7–21; Jonathan Bourgel, "Herod's golden eagle on the Temple gate: a reconsideration," Journal of Jewish Studies 72 (2021), pp. 23-44.
Ben Shahar, Meir «When was the Second Temple Destroyed? Chronology and Ideology in Josephus and in Rabbinic Literature» (en anglès). Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period. Brill, 46, 4/5, 2015, pàg. 562. DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12340439. JSTOR: 24667712.
Ben Shahar, Meir «When was the Second Temple Destroyed? Chronology and Ideology in Josephus and in Rabbinic Literature» (en anglès). Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period. Brill, 46, 4/5, 2015, pàg. 562. DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12340439. JSTOR: 24667712.
Josephus, Flavius. «The Wars of the Jews» p. i. 34, 29-06-2012. Arxivat de l'original el 2012-06-29. [Consulta: 26 gener 2019].
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Josephus (The Jewish War6.6.3.). Quote: "...So he (Titus) gave orders to the soldiers both to burn and plunder the city; who did nothing indeed that day; but on the next day they set fire to the repository of the archives, to Acra, to the council-house, and to the place called Ophlas; at which time the fire proceeded as far as the palace of queen Helena, which was in the middle of Acra: the lanes also were burnt down, as were also those houses that were full of the dead bodies of such as were destroyed by famine" (END QUOTE).
Basat en els anys de regnat de Darius I, publicat a la Cronologia babilònica de Richard Parker i Waldo Dubberstein, 626 aC–75 dC, Brown University Press: Providence 1956, pàg. 30. No obstant això, la tradició jueva sosté que el Segon Temple va durar només 420 anys, és a dir, des del 352 aC fins al 68 dC. Vegeu: Hadad, David. Sefer Maʻaśe avot (en hebreu). 4. Beer Sheba: Kodesh Books, 2005, p. 364. OCLC74311775.(amb el suport del rabí Ovadia Yosef, el rabí Shlomo Amar i el rabí Yona Metzger); Sar-Shalom, Rahamim. She'harim La'Luah Ha'ivry (Gates to the Hebrew Calendar) (en hebreu), 1984, p. 161 (Comparative chronological dates). OCLC854906532.; Maimonides. Sefer Mishneh Torah - HaYad Ha-Chazakah (Maimonides' Code of Jewish Law) (en hebreu). 4. Jerusalem: Pe'er HaTorah, 1974, p. 184–185 [92b–93a] (Hil. Shmitta ve-yovel 10:2–4). OCLC122758200.. «Segons aquest càlcul, aquest any, que és mil cent set anys després de la destrucció, quin any a l'era selèucida el recompte és [avui] l'any 1.487 (corresponent a Tishri 1175–Elul 1176 CE), sent l'any 4.936 anno mundi, és un Setè Any [del cicle de set anys], i és el 21è any del Jubileu " (CITA FINAL). = la destrucció ocorreguda en el mes lunar d'Av, dos mesos abans de l'Any Nou de 3.829 anno mundi.»
