A MODEL OF the Second Temple of Jerusalem. (credit ... the Second Temple was reconstructed under the auspices of King Herod. Talmudic sages praised it extravagant beauty, saying, “Whoever ...

Herod, even though he had a very complicated ... that would have circulated around the priesthood and around the Temple in Jerusalem, was an old group known as the Sadducees.

Beginning in 20 B.C. Herod set about rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem on a massive and magnificent scale; the Western Wall, the only part of this structure that survives, was the retaining wall.

Caruso went on to explain that, for Herod’s first temple shown in the film ... Scott set to Mary would be the vast set of ancient Jerusalem that Scott constructed for Kingdom of Heaven.

A stone quarry dating from the Second Temple period, recently uncovered in a northern Jerusalem neighborhood, contains massive limestone slabs that were likely used in King Herod’s various ...

Emil Eljam, Israel Antiquities Authority According to historical sources, Herod’s construction projects in Jerusalem included, first and foremost, the expansion of the Temple Mount compound and ...

Herod's Pillar, or the Finger of Og ... A MODEL OF the Second Temple of Jerusalem. (credit: Prof. Steven Fine) Work on the edifice was completed in the days of Persian king Darius I, ushering ...