Person · 4091–4123 AM · 331 CE — 363 CE
Julian the Apostate
the emperor who ordered the Temple rebuilt
Ruled 361–363 CE. Breaking with Christianity, he ordered the Temple in Jerusalem rebuilt at state expense—the works began and were abandoned after a fire on the site and the emperor's death on the Persian campaign. The brief hope of 363 stayed in the memory of both faiths: to one an unfulfilled miracle, to the other a sign.
Sources
Documents of the period
- Ammianus Marcellinus XXIII:1 — the building order and the fire at the works
- Julian, Letter To the Community of the Jews — the promise to rebuild the holy city
Basis: documents and evidence.