Solomon's Temple: Myth, Conflict, and Faith [Paperback]

• The most extensive study of the interrelated history of two monuments, Solomons Temple and The Dome of the Rock, drawing on an exhaustive review of all the visual and textual evidence
• Relayed as a gripping narrative, allowing readers to re-enter and experience the emotions and the visceral reality of the major events in its history
• Integrates illustration with the text to offer a highly detailed and accurate portrait of the major structures and figures involved in the history of the temple
• Opens up a fascinating line of questioning into the conventional interpretation of events, particularly Christs actions in the Temple
• Reproduces rarely seen detailed drawings of the subterranean passages beneath Temple Mount as part of the British survey in the 19th century

List of Figures ix

List of Plates xii

Prologue 1

1 Solomons Temple 6

The Ark of the Covenant 8

King David 19

The Temple of Solomon 21

Nebuchadnezzar II 28

2 Herod 37

The Maccabeans 41

Pompey 43

Herod 45

Herod Demolishes the Second Temple 48

The Third Temple 51

The Royal Portico 57

3 Not . . . one stone upon another 65

Moneychangers 68

Paul 72

The Temple Destroyed 74

4 The Holy Sepulcher 88

Hadrian and Aelia Capitolina 88

ConstantinelSz