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 ...

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 ...

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The "extraordinary" Jewish ritual bath was found during archaeological excavations in the ruins of the ancient Roman port city of Ostia, near to Rome. - Remo Casilli/Reuters ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical region of Israel and the surrounding area. The “mikveh,” used by religious Jews ...