This week in our Women's Gathering we will be studying some of the events that happened at Herod's Temple, in Jerusalem. I have been looking for reliable schematics to tell me where places such as "the temple gate called Beautiful" (Acts 3:2) and "Solomon's Colonnade" (Acts 3:11) are, and I ran across this amazing model. Check it out!
Tuesday 12 May 2009
Herod's Temple
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I really enjoyed those pictures!
It helps me understand what I read in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes (Kenneth E. Bailey) about the Temple area (in regard to John 8's story of the woman who was not stoned):
...The temple area is about thirty-five acres. At that time, around three sides of that large enclosure there was a long, covered walkway. The best English word we have for this is cloister. Connected to this walkway on the north end of the temple area, Herod the Great had constructed a large military fort. He knew that civil unrest often began in the temple enclosure, so he insured that there was access from the fort both to the temple area and to the roof of this covered walkway. Josephus, A Jewish historian of the first century, records that during feast days Roman soldiers would patrol along that walkway and through the crowds, keeping a sharp eye out for any unrest. He wrote, "a Roman legion went several ways among the cloisters, with their arms, on the Jewish festivals, in order to watch the people, that they might not there attempt to make any innovations." The entire scene unfolding around Jesus [in John 8] was under Roman observation, and everyone was conscious of this armed military presence.
(page 232-232)
Wow! Thank you for sharing that link.
Kellie
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