THE TEMPLES THAT JERUSALEM FORGOT jewish history archaeology dig israel HANUKKAH

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485 PAGES WITH EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
How is it possible that the true location of the Jewish temple could be forgotten? It sounds preposterous. But Martin carefully picks through centuries of Jewish historical records ( many of which were eyewitness accounts) and shows how before the time of the Crusades it was commmonly known that the temple of Solomon, Zerubabel, Herod (as well as the subsequent attempts to rebuild) were all located in the city of David -and over the Gihon Spring --- not on the Haram \"temple mount\". He recounts how through a combination of complicated circumstances involving the displacement of the Jewish community of Jerusalem , the involvement of Caliph Omar and the pronouncments of Jewish mystics that the names that once applied to locations in the city of David were actually transfered to the Haram.

To complicate things further there is good evidence that the activities of Simon the Hasmonean during the Maccabean period included a drastic cutting down of the bedrock of the city of David -- to the point that descriptions of it afterward are unrecognizable when compared with it\'s previous appearance! Indeed this book is a lesson in how complicated and contorted a history of a given location can be and how many good records can be overlooked or mistakenly rejected!

Those interested in Roman military history will find Martin\'s discussion of the Fort Antonia (which was undoubtedly located on the Haram - essentially it WAS the Haram ) quite convincing. The line drawings of the layouts of other Roman forts for comparison are interesting.
Also it is interesting that Josephus ( whose reputation as a historian has suffered somewhat because his description of the temple location seemed quite \"off\" when compared with the accepted sources) is properly exonerated by Martin\'s research.

It is worth noting that Ernest Martin worked with the famous and well respected Benjamin Mazar on the dig south of the Haram wall near the area where the temple actually was (Martin was supervisor of the volunteer excavation team ). Mazar\'s grandaughter Eilat Mazar is now uncovering the remains of what apparently was King David\'s palace quite near the same locations. All it would take would be for the right artifacts to be dug up to change nearly EVERYONE\'S perception of the accepted history of the temple mount -- and as a result the course of the history of the Middle East as well.

Also of note is that Martin\'s research identifying the \"star\" of Bethlehem ( see listing for his book on the subject) is now now accepted by many researchers and planetariums.

As far as the actual experience of reading this books goes -- I will say that Martin is repetitive but I found that I needed the repitition to keep me on track because there is a lot of material here and the real proof is in the COMBINATION of facts -- not in just one or two \"smoking guns\"
Martin was of the Christian persuasion but Jewish readers will not find that too much of a problem in reading the material - in fact there is so much hard core historical evidence in the book that it overwhelms any discussion of the Christian point of view ( which he does not discuss much anyway).

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