Archaeological Remains Point To Location Of Second Temple Of Jerusalem, Says ScholarNews Staff
The Temple Mount Dome of the Rock Western Wall (Wailing Wall) Church of the Holy Sepulchre Israeli‑Palestinian Conflict Over Jerusalem Modern‑Day Jerusalem Sources Jerusalem is a city located in modern-day Israel and is considered by many to be one of the holiest places in the...
This paper mainly focuses on the location of the early Church starting with Jerusalem, but with a focus on the first two churches(EphesusandSmyrna) mentioned in Revelation chapter 2. Many theologians believe that the churches mentioned in Revelation 2 & 3 represent an outline of what would happe...
One such story, commemorated every year throughout the Islamic world, is that of al-Isra wa al-Mi raj. According to legend, on the twenty-sixth day of the Islamic month of Rajab, the Prophet Muhammad traveled at night from Mecca (a city in what is now Saudi Arabia) to Jerusalem. ...
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Gethsemane is a garden across the Kidron Valley on the Mount of Olives, a ridge paralleling the eastern part of Jerusalem, where Jesus is said to have prayed on the night of his arrest before the Crucifixion. The name suggests that the garden was a grove
” Yiddish-speaking Jews and survivors in the years immediately following their liberation called the murder of the Jews the Ḥurban, the word used to describe the destruction of the First Temple inJerusalemby the Babylonians in 586bceand thedestruction of the Second Templeby the Romans in ...
(4-hectare) blocks bounded by wide streets grouped around the Temple Block (now known as Temple Square). Mormon immigrants from the East and Europe flocked to the “New Jerusalem,” the “City of the Saints,” in the Provisional State of Deseret (aBook of Mormonword interpreted as “...
Resistance to Greek cultural hegemony peaked during the reign of Antiochus IV (175–163), whose promotion of Greek culture culminated in his raising a statue to Zeus in the Temple at Jerusalem. He had previously ordered the Jews to build shrines to idols and to sacrifice pigs and other ...
His sanctuary in Tyre, described by the Greek historian Herodotus (who called the temple that of Heracles), was the scene of annual winter and spring festivals and is believed to have been the model for Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem. Melqart was probably equated with the sun, and Baal ...