The city that Titus saw for the first time from Mount Scopus, named after the Greek skopeo meaning ‘look at’, was, in Pliny’s words, ‘by far the most celebrated city of the East’, an opulent, thriving metr
Mishkenot Shaananim was the first neighborhoods built outside the walls of the Old City. At the time, this was such an off-the-wall idea that, at first, no one would live there even if you paid them. And pay them, Montefiore did - although some of the first "paid-for tenants" wo...
The city that Titus saw for the first time from Mount Scopus, named after the Greek skopeo meaning ‘look at’, was, in Pliny’s words, ‘by far the most celebrated city of the East’, an opulent, thriving metropolis built around one of the greatest temples of the ancient world, itself...