Wednesday, August 04, 2004

TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Well, sort of.
Famed Second Temple model moving to Israel Museum
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent

A famous model of Jerusalem and the Second Temple which stood at the Holyland Hotel in the capital for close to 40 years is slated to be moved to the grounds of the Israel Museum within a year.

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The model, built on a scale of 50:1, shows the topography of the area as seen in that period, which was much more imposing than today. The Temple Mount was built according to exact Biblical references, and the surrounding buildings according to the understanding of its planner, archaeology professor Michael Avi-Yonah. The model was adjusted only once, following a dig in the 1970s by Prof. Binyamin Mazar which revealed that Robinson's Arch and the southern approaches to the mount looked different than the model.

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