The most likely significant return of Jews to Jerusalem (I have no information about the House of David) following the expulsion from Jerusalem under the Romans in 132 C.E. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora), I suggest may be as follows:
- - - - Start of extract: - - - -
“[...] Immediately on his [Roman Emperor Julian’s] accession to the imperial dignity, upon the death of his cousin, the persecuting Constantius, Julian proclaimed a general religious amnesty. [5]
Citation: 5. Ammian Marcellinus (heathen contemporary),
History, book XXII., 5; Sozomen (
Ecclesiastical History), V.5; Socrates (
Eccl.Hist.), book II., c. xxxviii. 23.
He extended to all the inhabitants of the mighty Roman world, that reached from the British Isles in the West to Central Asia in the East, the benefits of a free and equal toleration[.] The various restictions and burdensome taxes in favour of Christianity, that had been imposed upon Pagans and Jews, were with one stroke replealed. “Ye are all brothers of one another: God is the common Father of us all,”[6]
Citation: 6. Cp. Malachi ii. 10: “Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us?”
exclaims the humane Emperor in one of his letters, and upon this noble principle he acted, depriving the Church authorities of the power given to them by Julian’s predcessors, of persecuting all who did not acknowledge their own party cries and doctrines. Heretics of all shades of opinion were recalled from banishment: Arians, Novatians, Donatists, and all the numerous sects of Christianity, who were only too ready to come to blows with each other and with the ruling Athanasian Church of Rome, were ordered to live peaceably together, on severe penalties. The Jews breathed the air of freedom for the first time since the days of Alexander Severus (died 235 A.D. [C.E.]); all the cruel edicts of earlier emperors, especially those of Hadrian (died 138 A.D. [C.E.] ), were abrogated, and Julian behaved in a most friendly manner towards the oppressed race. He appears to have personally known many Jews;[1]
Citation: 1. See his references to Jewish customs,
infra.
[...] The climax of Julian’s friendly attitude towards the Jews was reached in his desire to rebuild the Temple [...]”
Note:
I have put the citations within the text.
Extract source:
“The Emperor Julian and the Jews” by Michael Adler.
The Jewish Quarterly Review
Vol. 5, No. 4 (Jul., 1893), pp. 593-594. Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1450290?seq=4 - metadata_info_tab_contents
- - - - End of extract - - - -
- - - - Start of extract: - - - -
“At the time [Roman Emperor] Julian was on his way to Persia to conduct a military campaign. But in the Letter to the Community of the Jews he promised that on his return he would rebuild “the sacred city of Jerusalem, which for so many years you have longed to see inhabited, and [you] may bring settlers there and, together with you, may glorify the Most High God therein.”(4)”
Citation: 4. Julian, To the Community of the Jews.
Extract source:
“Julian the Apostate and His Plan to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple, Jeffrey Brodd, BR 11:05, Oct 1995.”:
http://cojs.org/julian-the-apostate-plan...ld-temple/
- - - - End of extract - - - -
