What year, in the equivalent Gregorian, and Hebrew, was the second temple destroyed?
Edit: I did some googling before posting and it seems that there's a discrepancy between chazal and the secular historians.
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7en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70) This question doesn't show much research effort...– Double AA ♦Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 0:37
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The (insignificant) discrepancy you mention is based on the Book of Daniel, whose prophetic vision of the seventy weeks (9:24-27) takes place in the first year of Darius (9:1-2), which can be shown (11:1-4) to be the same as Darius II, whose reign started in 423 BCE. Since there is no year zero, by adding precisely 490 years, we get 68 CE.– user18041Commented Sep 12, 2019 at 9:34
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There are actually three different years found in Jewish sources for the destruction of the second Holy Temple in Jerusalem:
3828 / 68 CE
3829 / 69 CE
3830 / 70 CE
This discrepancy is based on a number of factors. For more on that see: http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2641925/jewish/Which-Year-Was-the-Second-Temple-Destroyed-69-CE-or-70-CE.htm
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So I guess we can now figure out which opinion was right– Double AA ♦Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 17:24
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1It would be great to add a short summary to the answer besides the link. Commented Apr 5, 2021 at 6:05