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Solomon’s Temple ForFinlay,HenryandAnne. Solomon’s Temple Myth, Conflict, and Faith Alan Balfour A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication Thiseditionfirstpublished2012 ©2012JohnWiley&SonsInc. Wiley-BlackwellisanimprintofJohnWiley&Sons,formedbythemergerofWiley’s globalScientific,TechnicalandMedicalbusinesswithBlackwellPublishing. RegisteredOffice JohnWiley&SonsLtd,TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO19 8SQ,UK EditorialOffices 350MainStreet,Malden,MA02148-5020,USA 9600GarsingtonRoad,Oxford,OX42DQ,UK TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO198SQ,UK Fordetailsofourglobaleditorialoffices,forcustomerservices,andforinformation abouthowtoapplyforpermissiontoreusethecopyrightmaterialinthisbookplease seeourwebsiteatwww.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. TherightofAlanBalfourtobeidentifiedastheauthorofthisworkhasbeenasserted inaccordancewiththeUKCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. 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Typesetin10.5/13ptMinionbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India 1 2012 Contents ListofFigures ix ListofPlates xii Prologue 1 1 Solomon’sTemple 6 TheArkoftheCovenant 8 KingDavid 19 TheTempleofSolomon 21 NebuchadnezzarII 28 2 Herod 37 TheMaccabeans 41 Pompey 43 Herod 45 HerodDemolishestheSecondTemple 48 TheThirdTemple 51 TheRoyalPortico 57 3 ‘‘Not...onestoneuponanother’’ 65 Moneychangers 68 Paul 72 TheTempleDestroyed 74 4 TheHolySepulcher 88 HadrianandAeliaCapitolina 88 Constantine 93 ThePlague 103 TheFallofRome 105 HagiaSophia 107 Madaba 110 vi Contents ThePersianWar 111 5 DomeoftheRock 117 MuhammadandtheFallofJerusalem 122 UmarinJerusalem 123 TheDomeoftheRock 129 TheRock 137 6 TemplumDomini 146 TheJewsReturn 149 TheFirstCrusade 154 CrusaderJerusalem 158 TemplumDomini 160 TheTemplarsinthePalaceofSolomon 163 Saladin 167 7 RecreatingtheTemple 175 IntheImaginationofPriests 178 TheTempleinthePopularImagination 199 ReturntoMountMoriah 205 8 Jerusalem 217 Views 217 Maps 225 BritishOrdnanceSurveyofJerusalem 234 ThePalestineExplorationFund(PEF) 240 JerusalemandWorldWarI 247 9 Al-HaramAl-Sharif 254 ThePathtoConflict 254 JerusalemUnderTransjordan 257 AnNaksah,TheSixDayWar 259 LiberationofTempleMount 260 ArcheologyandtheWesternWall 263 TheBurningofAl-AqsaMosque 264 JewishPrayeronTempleMount 266 TheRabbi’sTunnel 269 ContinualProvocation 271 Rabbi’sTunnelRevisited 275 CampDavidSummit 276 TheSecondIntifada 277 Contents vii Epilogue 282 Acknowledgments,Sources,andMethods 290 Index 295 List of Figures and Plates Figures Figure1.1 Karnack,theHallofColumns 9 Figure1.2 Moses alongside the Ark leads the twelve Hebrew tribesoutofEgypt 10 Figure1.3 Constructing the wall of the Tabernacle: a bird’s-eye view 16 Figure1.4 Bird’s-eyeviewoftheinterioroftheTemple;fromthe EstienneBible,1540 23 Figure1.5 Cherubims,GuardiansoftheArk 24 Figure1.6 Solomon’sTemple;fromtheEstienneBible,1540 26 Figure1.7 AplanofJerusaleminthetimeoftheFirstTemple 29 Figure2.1 AplanoftheHerodianTempleprecinct 54 Figure2.2 AplanoftheHerodianTempleSanctuary 56 Figure2.3 TheHerodianTempleprecinct:perspectivefromthe southwest 58 Figure2.4 AplanofJerusaleminthetimeofHerod 59 Figure3.1 The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem, Nicolas Poussin. 80 Figure4.1 AplanofAeliaCapitolina 92 Figure4.2 ModelofConstantine’sBasilica 94 Figure4.3 AplanofChristianJerusalem 102 Figure5.1 AplanoftheDomeoftheRock 118 x ListofFiguresandPlates Figure5.2 A section of the Dome of the Rock, showing mosaic decorationontheinterior 132 Figure5.3 Among the earliest photographs of the Dome on TempleMountfromtheeast 138 Figure5.4 TheinterioroftheDomeintheearlytwentieth century 138 Figure5.5 ThesurfaceoftheRockbeneaththeDome 140 Figure5.6 AplanofIslamicJerusalem 141 Figure6.1 AplanofCrusaderJerusalem 164 Figure7.1 Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, RembrandtvanRijn 177 Figure7.2 GroundPlanoftheTempleprecincts 179 Figure7.3 PeterLaicstain’sengravingillustratingthecrucifixion 181 Figure7.4 ActivitiesSurroundingtheTabernacleandtheTentsof theTwelveTribes,BenedictusAriasMontano 182 Figure7.5 Montano’sviewoftheTemple 183 Figure7.6 Ierusalem,describedasitstoodeingreatest beautie... 185 Figure7.7 ATrueImageofJerusalem,Villalpando 187 Figure7.8 Plan for the rebuilding of the Temple of Solomon as describedinEzekiel,Villalpando 188 Figure7.9 (aandb)EastElevationoftheTempleofSolomonandits SupportingStructureasdescribedinEzekiel,Villalpando 189 Figure7.10 Perspective view of Temple of Solomon as described in Ezekiel,Villalpando 190 Figure7.11 TempleofSolomon,Flemish,seventeenthcentury 192 Figure7.12 Bernard Lamy’s reconstruction of Jerusalem and the Temple 193 Figure7.13 Bernard Lamy’s perspective looking toward Temple Mount 194 Figure7.14 Bernard Lamy’s plan, elevations, and sections of the Temple 195 Figure7.15 NewPlanofAncientJerusalem,Calmet 197 ListofFiguresandPlates xi Figure7.16 SolomonHavingBuilttheTempleofJerusalemDedicates ittotheLord,Calmet 198 Figure7.17 TheTempleUnderConstruction,Luyken 201 Figure7.18 TheRomansDestroytheTemple,Luyken 201 Figure7.19 Newton’sreconstructionoftheTemple 203 Figure7.20 Herz’sJerusalem 205 Figure7.21 ABird’sEyeViewofJerusalem,Eltzner 207 Figure7.22 TheTempleofJerusalem,deVogu¨e´ 207 Figure7.23 ReconstructionoftheTempleofSolomon,Schick 209 Figure7.24 PerspectiveoftheSecondTemple,Chipiez 211 Figure8.1 ViewofJerusalemfromtheMountofOlives,von Breydenback 218 Figure8.2 TheTempleofSolomon,Schedel 221 Figure8.3 ThedestructionofJerusalembyTitus,Schedel 222 Figure8.4 Ierusalem,Merian 224 Figure8.5 PlandelavilledeIerusalemmoderne,Doubdan 226 Figure8.6 Catherwood’spanoramaofJerusalem 229 Figure8.7 Robinson’sArch,whenfirstidentifiedaround1870 232 Figure8.8 Robinson’sArchandthepathbeneathfromthetime ofHerod,aftertheextensivearcheologicalworkinthe 1960s 233 Figure8.9 PlanoftheTownandEnvironsofJerusalem.Fromthe OrdnanceSurveyofJerusalem 237 Figure8.10 TheDomeoftheRock.FromtheOrdnanceSurveyof Jerusalem 239 Figure8.11 Warren’ssection.FromUndergroundJerusalem 242 Figure8.12 Warren’ssurveyplanoftheHaram 245
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