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The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ , Modern: Bēt haMīqdaš, Tiberian: Bēṯ hamMīqdāš; Arabic: بيت المقدس, Bayt al-Maqdis), refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple ...
In 70 CE, at the height of the First Jewish–Roman War, the Second Temple was destroyed by the Roman siege of Jerusalem, [a] marking a cataclysmic and transformative point in Jewish history. [4] The loss of the Second Temple prompted the development of Rabbinic Judaism , which remains the mainstream form of Jewish religious practices globally.
The Jewish temple at Elephantine in Egypt, already standing in 525 BCE [125] The Israelite temple at Tel Motza, c. 750 BCE discovered in 2012 a few kilometres west of Jerusalem. Several Iron Age temples have been found in the region that have striking similarities to the Temple of King Solomon.
Many Evangelical Christians believe that New Testament prophecies associated with the Jewish Temple, such as Matthew 24–25 and 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, were not completely fulfilled during the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE (a belief of full preterism) and that these prophecies refer to a future temple.
The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת, romanized: Har haBayīt, lit. 'Temple Mount'), also known as the Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, 'Haram al-Sharif'), and sometimes as Jerusalem's holy esplanade, [2] [3] is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem that has been venerated as a holy site for thousands of years, including in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Reconstruction of the Second Temple in the Holyland Model of Jerusalem. Temple denial is the claim that the successive Temples in Jerusalem either did not exist or they did exist but were not constructed on the site of the Temple Mount, a claim which has been advanced by Islamic political leaders, religious figures, intellectuals, and authors.
The Jerusalem and Babylonian talmuds, compiled in the 4th and 5th centuries, provide detailed prescriptions for mourning rituals observed by Jewish pilgrims visiting Jerusalem, including specific guidelines for tearing garments and reciting prayers when witnessing the ruins of Judea, Jerusalem, and the temple. [268]
Jewish temple may refer to: Synagogue, a Jewish or Samaritan place of worship; Temple in Jerusalem, the former Israelite or Jewish places of worship Solomon's Temple, destroyed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE; Second Temple, destroyed by the Roman Empire in 70 CE; Third Temple, prophesied in Judaism per the Hebrew Bible (the Old ...