Couple of clingers in my de-converting

[Minimalist]

Jerusalem was sacked and burned in 70 but it was not actually leveled until 135 when Hadrian's urban renewal project, Aelia Capitolina, was built on the site.  Josephus, who was present at the siege of Jerusalem, tells us that a number of towers remained which makes the so-called "Mark prophecy" a bit premature....unless it was written in the mid 2d century in which case it was true enough.

Hadrian DID level it.  But before that:

http://www.biu.ac.il/js/rennert/history_5.html

Jerusalem's Jewish population was replaced by soldiers of the Roman Tenth Legion, their families, and some civilians, Hellenists from Syria and elsewhere. Vespasian, who had led the triumphant army, was appointed emperor. He and his son Titus marked their victory by minting a coin bearing the inscription "Judea is captured." Until then Jews throughout the world had sent donations to the Temple in Jerusalem. Now they were compelled to pay a special tax to support Roman temples. With the Jewish "gods" now safely deposited in Rome, the Romans assumed that the Jews were vanquished.

Just as David built his altar on the site of the Jebusite altar some thousand years earlier, the Romans built two temples to displace Jewish and Christian worship at Jerusalem's holy sites. On the Temple Mount Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter. Literary sources refers to two statutes on the Temple Mount, one of them of Hadrian. An inscription which was found in secondary use on the Mount refers to Emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). On the traditional site of the crucifixion Hadrian built a temple to Aphrodite. This temple was torn down about 200 hundred years later by the Byzantines, who reclaimed the site for Christianity by building the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Under the church archaeologists found retaining walls built to artificially elevate the base of the pagan temple, just as Herod did when he leveled and expanded the Temple Mount.

I doubt that's what ole yahweh the bloody-handed had in mind.