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Jerusalem Temple at the Time of Jesus

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How Did the Jewish Temple Work?

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Explore Ancient Biblical Jerusalem (Jewish Second Temple)

The Second Temple was the Jewish holy temple which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, between 516 BCE and 70 CE. According to Jewish tradition, it replaced Solomon's Temple, which was destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE, when Jerusalem was conquered and part of the population of the Kingdom of Judah was taken into exile to Babylon.
  • Biblical narrative 

  • Rabbinical literature 

  • Rededication by the Maccabees 

  • Hasmonean dynasty and Roman conquest 

  • Herod's Temple 

  • Pilgrimages 

  • Destruction 

  • Archaeology 

  • Second Temple Judaism