Jewish Priesthood after the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70 

God said he would bring an end to these rituals , and he did. He brought in a new covenant not like the one he gave to their fathers.

Lecture starts at 2:50

Wonderful lecture and just what I need while researching this post 70 period, thank you:)

Thank you very much, Professor Grey! I am very interested in this! Can you refer me to more literature on this fascinating subject?

Kohanim exist today as they have existed for all the history of Judaism. They have both rights and responsibilities, duties and obligations that reflect their special regard amongst the Jewish people. As was no doubt the case in second temple times Kohanim might officiate as required in the Temple but have occupations and livelihoods away from Temple duties.....those occupations and livelihoods survived Temple or not. A given kohen would only have officiated as part of the temple service twice per year and on the pilgrim festivals if that.....maybe a total of 20 days per year if he, and it was always a he, was really unlucky.

The Lord Jesus as the final Word stated the house would be made desolate. The zealots killed the High Priest family, and destroyed the records. A High Priest you had to be the first born son from the family of Aaron. Ezra rejected the men returning that claimed a levitical heredity because that had no records. There is no way to reconstitute the old covenant priesthood.

This is already known among Jews

Just look in any religious Jewish community to see an active priesthood

Any identifiable priest still alive now?

Sigh, always with the same agenda. People forget that this wasn't the first time Jews were vanquished from the Land. In 586 BC the priesthood was exiled to the state of Babylon under Nebuchadnetzer . This gave birth to the prophetic writings of the major prophets whom were also of the priestly class. Isaiah gave very clear instruction to those disconnected from the centre of the temple activity and its importance. When separated from the temple system they were to conduct themselves differently yet the Laws didn't change. The priesthood that can or will reestablish itself WILL BE THROUGH THE RABBIS. IT IS THE SAME ENTITY. That is not to say that all Rabbis will be active in the third temple. Obviously they will be selected. The Rabbis of the various Orthodox communities never accepted the concept of a Judaism without the future mechanism of full sacrificial activity in a rebuilt temple you are sadly mistaken.

Santos means priest's son and many of them have the Cohen Modal Haplotype. I don't know about the Extended Cohen Modal haplotype. Baruch means blessing and is a family name for president Obama's family and the Lembas tribe has a special DNA lineage tying them back to Jerusalem they say. Levi, Levitt, etc are traditionally tied into the Levites they say. Surnames are not the only way to track them. Any male lineage should be fairly stable. The rabbis came about after Rome and they banished a society of women in Babylon that used to handle funerals and charitable work, etc. There is more to it than that but the Sephardi have liineages claiming to be from David's line though the Rabbinic history claims the line died off. As if the King made three requests and didn't include his kids. Plus the Exilarchs. Wait until we see among the Muslim nations how many belong to the ten tribes... that could be pretty cool. People fighting wars in the world slows us down and causes destruction and plunder, destroying evidences that would have been cool to have. Some priestly cycles have various traditions the Rabbis generally may not have. Jews were not all united at the time of the Roman conquest and they even fought eachother. There was one group that burned the grain to force then to fight out of their seige either Rome. One Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH) was not Cohen but close they say. It's important to get more resolution if CMH is found because they have a higher resolution to see if you are related to the few lines they know about. It wasn't just one lineage. David and Levi and Aaron were all officiating in different roles in the temple. And Zadok may have had his lineage there for all we know, but we don't know on that one.

rome wasn't going to tolerate a central gathering place for all those freedom festival based holidays after 70...small gatherings with no official temple requiring an effigy of the current god-emperor and moderated by a rabbi worked for everybody except the hereditary priesthood...

The trouble is that the whole history of Israel and its traditions is a shadow picture.

Yes, I think Judaism had several transformations. The Jews from the year 70, in Jerusalem, Alexandria, Babylon, they had the mindset of the Palestinians today. It was easy for the Greeks and Romans to trick them... creating a scenario to exploit their imprudence, their barbarism... at least that was what the people were saying in Rome. The Jews continued to be impulsive, just like the other religious cults at the time, in other words, more of the same... and then, I don't know exactly when, they changed, at least one group of them. Much more cunning, calm, unhurried... almost different person's. I keep thinking about the offer that was made to Jesus, in the desert. He refused it, I'm not so sure about that group.

Torah became stories for childeren while the Talmud became the books of importance . look up isaia 66 ,

The Second Coming happened in 70ad

This funny..... 6 yrs later..... by DNA there are two AFRICAN tribes that have more proof they are of the lineage of REAL priests than ANY OF YOU IN THAT ENTIRE room. Ahhh... provide more info on that......?????

The Christian Priesthood, with the new Temple, Lamb and Jerusalem replaced it all

Jews and Mormons think alike. They both worship $$$, temple rites including ritualistic blood sacrifice, and both have their own books Christians define as blasphemy.