It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of
Jerusalem-cultural memory, symbol, and site-remains one of the most
powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. This glorious
structure, imagined and re-imagined, reconsidered and reinterpreted
again and again over two millennia, emerges in all its historical,
cultural, and religious significance in Simon Goldhill's account.
Built by Herod on a scale that is still staggering-on an earth and
rock platform 144,000 square meters in area and 32 meters high-and
destroyed by the Roman emperor Titus 90 years later, in 70 AD, the
Temple has become the world's most potent symbol of the human
search for a lost ideal, an image of greatness. Goldhill travels
across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent
of the Temple's impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly
imaginations. Through biblical stories and ancient texts,
rabbinical writings, archaeological records, and modern accounts,
he traces the Temple's shifting significance for Jews, Christians,
and Muslims. A complex and engaging history of a singular locus of
the imagination-a site of longing for the Jews; a central metaphor
of Christian thought; an icon for Muslims: the Dome of the Rock-The
Temple of Jerusalem also offers unique insight into where Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam differ in interpreting their shared
inheritance. It is a story that, from the Crusades onward, has
helped form the modern political world.
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