Tension focused on the Second Temple there, a building that symbolizes Herod’s complex relationship with his faith. Begun in 20 B.C., Herod’s restoration program refaced the structure in white ...

It is envisioned as a complex of richly painted and gilded ... constructed a far more expansive version of the Second Temple. “Herod’s attitude was, ‘Anything you can do, I can do better ...

And so, when Herod built the city, or helped to rebuild the city, he did so on a monumental scale. And this can be seen in the rebuilding of the Temple. If we move around the Temple complex ...

The area is to be preserved and incorporated into a planned 40-story industrial and commercial complex developed ... in the late Second Temple period, beginning under King Herod the Great ...

The First Temple, also known as Solomon's Temple, was destroyed by the Babylonians when they conquered Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Herod's Temple, which was the second Jewish temple constructed in ...

And so, when Herod built the city, or helped to rebuild the city, he did so on a monumental scale. And this can be seen in the rebuilding of the Temple. If we move around the Temple complex ...