The Romans and the pro-Roman Jewish intelligentsia who put down the Revolt had a theological-political ideology about this great war. Bart Ehrman, in From Jesus to Constantine, mentioned after exile, Jewish theology could no longer be simply, bad things happen to us because we are not devout enough. Then comes the Jewish Civil War and the First Jewish Roman War. The resulting despair led some Jews to seek refuge at the Temple, but they died in a Temple set on fire.

In the aftermath, under Roman victors, a theopolitical ideology took written form. The oral autobiography of Vespasian’s court historian Flavius Josephus was re-written into the hagiography of Saint Paul in the second part of Acts.

It was at Caesarea Philippi that Herod the Great built the Temple of Augustus (Augusteum) in 19 B.C. to honor his Caesar.

Martintee:
It is the most insane ridiculous proposition that Jesus is Julius Caesar.

Steefen:
This Temple to Augustus, this kowtowing of Pro-Roman support was done when Jews had not threatened Rome. Kowtowing to Rome after threatening Rome and self was more extreme than taking the form of architecture, it took the form of ideology, self-flagellating the theology of Temple Judaism itself: yes, our messiahs were put to death by you. In our insubordination, we brought starvation, cannibalism, and destruction of our own city and Temple. So we honor you, we take on Romanization by reinterpreting the Father and Son of the founders of your imperial civilization into the founding of Christianity. And as Virgil wrote the Aeneid honoring the founding of Imperial Rome, “Paul” wrote Romans.