David’s son and successor Solomon brought the project to fruition. This temple was destroyed, rebuilt, renovated, and then ...

Close to Jaffa Street, at the entrance to the Russian Compound, lies an ancient giant pillar, still partially embedded in the stone quarry from which it was carved. A flaw, visible to the naked ...

He created magnificent public building works across Judaea, most notably the colossal reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Herod saved his people from famine in the mid-20s B.C. Although his ...

And so, when Herod built the city, or helped to rebuild the city, he did so on a monumental scale. And this can be seen in the rebuilding of the Temple. If we move around the Temple complex ...

The local synagogues that had developed in the diaspora outside the Land of Israel became the ongoing universal centers of Jewish life. Unlike the words church or temple, which mean “House of God,” ...

Robinson's Arch is visible in the nearest corner of the mount. First-century Jerusalem was dominated by the mammoth expansions to the Temple Mount begun by Herod the Great in 20 BCE and not completed ...