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The Quest: Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is unavailable, but you can change that!

A resource was needed to bring together all that is now known about the development of the manmade plateau that is the focus of the world’s interest—the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Ritmeyer’s experience as architect of the Temple Mount Excavations, coupled with his exploration of parts of the Mount and his doctoral research make him singularly qualified for the task. Comprehensive in scope, the...

tears shed on its stones; thus it is a fitting place to begin to try to understand the solemnity and magnificence of this site. Contrary to tradition, the Western Wall is not a remnant of the Solomonic Temple, but rather a section of the massive retaining walls that Herod built almost a thousand years later in order to support the enormous substructure needed to extend the Temple platform. In so doing, he doubled the original area of the Temple podium and wrought a complete change
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