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Title: | Temple Mount fill not proof that Temples stood there | |||
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| Name: | Ivar | | |||
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| City: | State: | Estonia | | ||
| Evidence below proves that the Jewish temples were south of the "Temple Mount" (TM), built in the 6th century by Justinian as a platform for his immense Jerusalem Hagia Sophia. The fill for the platform was sweepings of nearby rubble, which explains the intrusions of 1st and 2nd Temple period artifacts, the temples having been located very near by, next to the Gihon Spring. Jews can be content to relinquish the TM to the Muslims: Scholarship has mislocated the 1st and 2nd Temples, actually located to the South of the traditional Temple Mount (TM): (1) 6th century Roman Historian Procopius stated that Western "Wailing Wall" was not Herodian, but built by Justinian to broaden the foundation for his massive Hagia Sophia, soon destroyed by the Persians, and rebuilt to 1/2 scale by the first Caliph of Jerusalem as a mosque to entice Jerusalem`s Christians. (2) Agrippa`s testimony of a clear view of the Temple from the Hasmonean Palace geographically permits ONLY a spot just to the South of the TM, which is too high to permit a view. (3) Historical documentation from the first 6 centuries demonstrates that the Temple location was well known, and conforms to the location in (2), near the Gihon Spring temple water source. The rubble excavated from the basements of the Waqf on the TM proves the TM was built well after the 2nd century CE. http://www.biblemysteries.com/lectures/builtwailingwall.htm http://www.templemount.org/sagiv2/index.html http://www.templemount.org/sagiv2/drawing20.jpg http://www.askelm.com/temple/t991001.htm (1) 6th century Roman historian Procopius testifies that Justinian, not Herod, built today`s supposed Temple platform: http://www.biblemysteries.com/lectures/builtwailingwall.htm Justinian`s intent was to memorialize Pilate`s judgment of Jesus of Nazareth, who stood in the prisoner`s dock of the Roman Praetorium located at the "rock" outcropping of the Dome of the Rock mosque, a half-scale model of Justinian`s Sophia Hagia of Jerusalem, built by its first Caliph to entice Jerusalem`s Christian population. The Dome of the Rock is centered on and oriented to the original center and plan of Justinian`s Sophia Hagia. The Christian Church of St. Sophia was built on the top of the Temple Mount and was destroyed by the Persian Emperor, Chrosos III, in the year of the prophet Mohammed`s birth. The original mosque of Omar was probably built of wood or mud and no trace of it exists. Its successor was built some decades later by the Caliph Abdel Malek who is also credited with starting the building of the Al Aqsa. Many of the stones and the metal roof came form the ruins of the church which had occupied the site before Chrosos. The whole edifice was built as an alternative place of pilgrimage by the early Caliphs who did not want their subjects travelling to Mecca and Medina which cities were then in the hands of rival Caliphs. (2) Herod`s Temple was located elsewhere: http://www.templemount.org/sagiv2/index.html "Determination of the location of the Temple based on a horizontal observation angle by Agrippa. ... If we assume that the Hasmonean Palace was in the region of the Herodian Quarter in Beit Hamidot, based on a suggestion made by one of the archeologists, this implies that the Temple lay outside the region known as the Temple Mount, in the region of the Beit Omaia palaces." See drawing 20 - not this website`s top choice, but otherwise flawless and consistent with (3), below: http://www.templemount.org/sagiv2/drawing20.jpg The vertical constraint to Agrippa`s view is elsewhere insurmountable. (3) The location of drawing 20 is thoroughly corroborated by numerous historical studies at: http://www.askelm.com/temple/t991001.htm |
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