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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

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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.

Since 1987, The Temple Institute, located in the Old City of Jerusalem, has been committed to returning to the Jewish traditions of ancient times by constructing a Temple to exact biblical ...

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 ...