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Table of contents

About This Book

References and Citations

Acknowledgments

Mount Moriah

Prehistory

The Mountain

The Foundation Stone

Cave of the Souls

The Beginning of History

The Jerusalem Temple

General Layout of the Jerusalem Temple

The Altar

Worship in the Jerusalem Temple

Worship Participants

Rituals and Their Location

Non-Jews in the Temple Complex

Incense

Music, Chants and Prayers in the Temple

Prostration

The First Temple

Architectural Design of the First Temple

Entrance: the Porch, Jachin and Boaz

Multiple-Recessed Door Frames

Windows

Side Structure

Temple Courts

Archaeological Findings from the First Temple Period

First Temple History According to Tanakh

The Prophet Ezekiel and the Temple

The Second Temple

Persian Period

Alexander the Great and the Ptolemaic Dynasty

Seleucids and Hasmoneans

Citadel on the Northern Side of the Mount

Seleucid Acra

Herod

The Antonia Fortress

Architectural Design of the Second Temple

Entrance and Façade

The Courtyard (Azara)

Place of the Hearth

Chambers in the Courtyard

Sources of Water

Courtyard Gates

Women’s Court

Rampart

Soreg

Raised Platform in the Center of the Temple Mount

Temple Treasury

Herod’s Expansion of the Temple Mount

Plan of Herod’s Temple Mount

Porticos

Herodian Walls of the Temple Mountain

A Vault Above a Vault?

Solomon’s Stables

Process of Expansion

Royal Stoa: Its Architecture and Function

Herodian Period Gates

Herodian Period Gates: Western Wall

Herodian Period Gates: Southern Wall

Herodian Period Gates: Eastern Wall

Corner Towers of the Mount

The Second Temple in the Books of the New Testament

The Destruction of the Temple

Roman Period

Birket Israil

Byzantine Period

Attempt to Rebuild the Temple

Cradle of Jesus

Persian Conquest and the Restoration of Temple Service

Muslim Period: Background

Narratives of Biblical Origin and Related Narratives

Al-‘Isra and al-Mi’raj

First Qibla

Subdivision of Early Muslim Period

Early Caliphs

The Umayyad Period

The Eschatological Role of the Temple Mount

The Dome of the Rock

Inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock

The Purpose of Building the Dome of the Rock

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Ancient Beams from al-Aqsa

Dome of the Chain

Minor Domes on the Raised Platform

The Abbasids and Fatimids

Temple Mount Gates in the Abbasid-Fatimid Era

Jews and the Temple Mount: Abbasid and Fatimid Periods

Crusaders on the Temple Mount

Jewish Pilgrims and Maimonides’s Ascent

Architectural Legacy of the Latin Kingdom

Crusader Alterations to the Main Buildings

Additional Smaller Buildings

Frankish Spolia in Later Buildings

The Ayyubids

Earliest Ayyubid Buildings

The Reign of Al-Mu’azzam ‘Isa

Mid-13th Century

The Mamluk Period

Earliest Mamluk Buildings

Al-Jawaliya or Old Seraglio

Early 14th century – Emir Tankiz

Minarets

Arcades (Qanatir) and Stairways

Mamluk Gates

Madrasas of the Later 14th Century

Mamluk Circassian Period Buildings (15th century)

Buildings No Longer Extant

Jewish Prayer at the Wall: The Western Wall and the Small Western Wall

Ottoman Period

Ottoman Domes on the Raised Platform

Sufi Khalwas

Ottoman Buildings in Other Parts of the Temple Mount

Mastabas and Mihrabs

Ottoman Administrative Complex

Ban on the Entry of «Infidels» and the Takruri Guard

The Pioneer Researchers

Recent History

British Mandate for Palestine

Jordanian Rule

Tombs at the Western Wall

Israeli Liberation of the Temple Mount

The “Status Quo»

Jewish Movements Related to the Temple Mount

Violent Episodes on the Temple Mount: From 1967 until Today

Intra-Muslim Struggle and Islamic Extremism

Preservation of Temple Mount Antiquities

Epilogue

Sources

Part 1 – First Temple

I Kings

Book of Psalms (Tehillim)

Part 2 – Second Temple

Book of Haggai, Chapter 1

Book of Ezra

Letter of Aristeas

Philo of Alexandria

Josephus, The Jewish War

Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews

Mishna Middot

Mishna Tamid

Mishna Shekalim

Part 3 — Roman/Byzantine period

The Pilgrim of Bordeaux

Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History

Gregory of Nazianzus

Letter Attributed to Cyril on the Rebuilding of the Temple

Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History

Part 4 – Early Muslim Period

Quran: some relevant verses

Faḍaʾil Bayt al-Maqdis literature

Sebeos History of Heraclius

Theophanes, Chronicle

Muthir al-Gharam

Al-Muqaddasi

Salmon ben Jeroham

Nasir Khusraw

Part 5 — Crusaders and Latin Kingdom

Sæwulf

William of Tyre

Daniel the Abbot

John of Würzburg

Part 6 – Late Muslim Period

Mujir al-Din

Rabbi David ibn Zimra

Arnold von Harff

Consul James Finn

Part 7 – Modern Period

Letter of Rabbi Shlomo Goren to the Israeli Government

Addenda

Appendix 1 — Underground Cisterns of the Temple Mount

Appendix 2 – Visiting the Temple Mount and the Relevant Requirements of Jewish Law (Halacha)

General Rules for Ascending the Temple Mount according to Jewish law:

Appendix 3 — List of Hebrew Names for Parts of the Temple Compound, their Transcription and Translation

Appendix 4 — List of Arab Names of Buildings on the Temple Mount

Bibliography

List of Abbreviations in Citations from Primary Sources

Map Key

Structures on the Raised Platform

Structures Along the Boundaries of the Raised Platform

Structures in the northern part of the Temple Mount (Counter-Clockwise)

Structures in the Southern part of the Temple Mount (Counter-Clockwise)