The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Table of Content:

Section	Page
`Preface`	1
`Introduction`	7
`Chapter One — The Herodian Temple Mount Walls`
`Explorers before 1967`	15
`Excavations after 1967`	18
`The Western Wall`	20
`The Western Wall Plaza`	22
`Barclay’s Gate`	25
`Wilson’s Arch`	30
`The Western Wall Tunnels`	32
`Warren’s Gate`	34
`The Rock-hewn Aqueduct`	38
`The Strouthion Pool`	42
`Robinson’s Arch`	44
`The Tyropoeon Valley Street`	52
`The Trumpeting Stone`	57
`The Southern Wall`	60
`The Southwest Corner`	61
`The Street and Plaza along the Southern Wall`	63
`The Double Gate and Stairway`	65
`The Double Gate Passageway`	69
`The Triple Gate and Stairway`	77
`The Underground Passageway of the Triple Gate`	88
`The Royal Stoa`	90
`The Single Gate Passageway`	95
`Solomon’s Stables and Ancient Vault`	98
`The Southeast Corner`	99
`The Eastern Wall`	101
`The Straight Joint Seam`	102
`The Tower`	105
`The Double Entrance`	107
`The Golden Gate Interior`	107
`The Golden Gate Stairway`	110
`The Northern Extension`	113
`The Tower at the Northeast Corner`	113
`The Pool of Israel`	118
`The Northern Wall`	119
`The Northern Facade of the Northeast Tower`	119
`The Southern Wall of the Pool of Israel`	121
`The Antonia Fortress`	123
`The Northern Court`	131
`Constructing Herod’s Temple Mount`	132
`Chapter Two — The Pre-Herodian Square Temple Mount`
`Historical Information`	139
`Flavius Josephus`	140
`Middot`	144
`Previous Proposals for the Location of the Square Temple Mount`	146
`Introduction`	146
`Melchior de Vog??`	149
`Charles Warren`	151
`Claude Reignier Conder`	153
`Conrad Schick`	154
`Charles Watson`	155
`Carl Mommert`	156
`Gustaf Dalman`	158
`Frederick Hollis`	159
`Jan Simons`	160
`Louis-Hugues Vincent`	161
`Asher Kaufman`	162
`David Jacobson`	164
`The Location of the Square Temple Mount`	165
`The Discovery of the Pre-Herodian Western Wall—"The Step"`	165
`The Fosse`	168
`The Northern Rockscarp in Cistern 29`	169
`Five Hundred Cubits and the Length of the Cubit`	170
`The Masonry near the Golden Gate`	174
`The Offset North of the Golden Gate`	177
`Ancient Gateposts inside the Golden Gate`	177
`The Bend in the Eastern Wall`	178
`The Eastern City Wall`	179
`The Southern Wall of the Square Temple Mount`	184
`The Western Wall of the Square Temple Mount`	184
`The Date of the Square Temple Mount`	186
`The Literary Sources relating to Building Activities on the Temple Mount during the First Temple Period`	186
`Hezekiah’s Temple Mount`	189
`The Literary Sources Relating to Building Activities on the Temple Mount during the Second Temple Period`	194
`Post-Exilic Restoration`	197
`The Identification of the Northeast Tower`	198
`The Towers of Hananeel and Meah`	200
`The Ptolemaic Akra`	201
`The Sheep Gate and the Prison Gate`	202
`The Tadi Gate`	204
`Chapter Three — The Hasmonean Temple Mount`
`The Location of the Seleucid Akra`	207
`The Cistern of the Akra`	211
`The Origin of the Triple Gate`	212
`The Vertical Joint Seam`	213
`The Baris`	216
`Solomon’s Porch`	219
`Chapter Four — The Underground Cisterns of the Temple Mount`
`Historical Information`	221
`Additional evidence for the location of the square Temple Mount`	222
`Key to the Underground Structures`	230
`The Cave al-Maghara below the "Holy Rock" es-Sakhra`	231
`Chapter Five — Understanding Herod’s Extension of the Temple Mount`
`The Drainage System in the Tyropoeon Valley`	233
`Warren’s Gate`	235
`Barclay’s Gate`	236
`The Double and Triple Gate Passageways`	237
`Summary`	238
`Chapter Six — The Location of the Temple`
`The Temple Court`	239
`The Rock and the Temple`	242
`Description of the Rock`	251
`The Crusaders and the Dome of the Rock`	256
`The Location of the Holy of Holies`	265
`The Former Location of the Ark of the Covenant`	268
`Chapter Seven — Reconstructing the First Temple`
`Introduction`	279
`Solomon’s Temple in the Book of Kings`	280
`History of the First Temple`	294
`Hezekiah’s Temple in the Book of Chronicles`	303
`Josiah and the Ark of the Covenant`	308
`Araunah’s Threshing Floor and the Location of the Altar`	312
`Abraham and Mount Moriah`	315
`Chapter Eight — Reconstructing the Second Temple`
`Rebuilding the Temple in the Post-Exilic Period—Introduction`	317
`Jeshua and Zerubbabel`	318
`The Altar and the Foundation of the Temple`	320
`The Completion of the Temple`	321
`Nehemiah and the Birah`	322
`Changes in the Second Century b.c.`	325
`Pompey’s Siege of the Temple Mount`	332
`Herod the Great and the Proto-Antonia`	334
`Chapter Nine Reconstructing the Herodian Temple Mount`
`The Herodian Porticoes and the Preserved Identity of the Square Temple Mount`	339
`The Gates of the Square Temple Mount`	344
`The Soreg`	346
`The HÄel or Terrace`	348
`The Court of the Women`	348
`The Four Chambers of the Court of the Women`	352
`The Fifteen Semi-circular Steps`	354
`Levels of the Courts of the Temple`	357
`The Temple Court Azarah`	365
`The Altar`	365
`The Laver`	368
`The Place of Slaughter`	368
`The Court of the Israelites and the Court of the Priests`	370
`The Buildings around the Temple Court`	371
`Chapter Ten — Reconstructing Herod’s Temple`
`Introduction`	377
`The Foundation of the Temple`	381
`The Porch Ulam`	382
`The Holy Heikhal`	388
`The Veil Parokhet`	390
`The Holy of Holies Debir`	392
`The Cells Surrounding the Sanctuary`	395
`The Inner Stairway Mesibbah`	397
`The Upper Chamber`	398
`Reference Section`
`Abbreviations`	402
`Bibliography`	403
`Notes and References`	413
`List of Illustrations`	423
`Index`	435