Endnote 16 – Did the Temple Menorah Come Back to Jerusalem?

Samuel Krauss, Studien zur byzantinisch-jüdischen Geschichte (Leipzig: Buchhandlung Gustav Fock, 1914), p. 106, n. 3. If that were the case, then the “Messiah of the lineage of Joseph” would be said to bring Temple vessels from Justinian’s palace to Jerusalem. This is exactly what Procopius said, minus the messianic element. Ra’anan Boustan has suggested that the Roman emperor was intended to be Emperor Julian (the Apostate) who ruled 361–363 C.E. and planned to restore the Temple in Jerusalem. Boustan, “The Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple,” p. 365, n. 108.