To turn the Temple, the centerpiece of Jewish life and identity, into a temple that would rival all of those in the ancient world. And so apparently, he poured, enormous amounts of money into it.

“That indicates it’s ancient glass ... The Roman general Titus exacted revenge against Jewish rebels, sacking and burning the Temple in A.D. 70. Among Muslims, the Temple Mount is called ...

Yuval Gadot of the Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures ... in the south and Temple Mount (the mountain on which the Jewish temple was) to its north. While current ...

Archaeologists working at Ostia Antica, an ancient Roman port city, have discovered the oldest Jewish ritual bath outside ... Middle East is one at an ancient temple on Russia's Taman Peninsula.

1[?]-8).” Pages 297-316 in Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions: A Study of the Emotions Associated with Prayer in the Jewish and Related Literature of the Second Temple Period. Edited by Renate ...

Relaxing the rules This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about food and circumcision. It was a slap in the face for Jewish tradition, but it was also the central reason ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Israeli police officers restrain Jewish activists protesting the Waqf control on the Temple Mount ... its significance as the location of the ancient Jewish Temples destroyed by the Babylonians ...

It retold one of the most well-worn ancient Jewish narratives, about the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E. To Zablocki, it could not have felt more urgent. That feeling has ...