On August 21, 1969, an Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, set the Al-Aqsa mosque on fire. Rohan was a reader of The Plain Truth magazine published by the Worldwide Church of God headed by Herbert W. Armstrong, which was best known for its radio and television programs called The World Tomorrow featuring his son Garner Ted Armstrong. Rohan had read an editorial in the June 1967 edition by Herbert W. Armstrong, concerning rebuilding of the Temple on Temple Mount. The article implied that the present structures would have to be removed an ...

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Temple Mount, Temple Mount - History and traditions of the site, Temple Mount - Controversy over location of site, Temple Mount - Jewish religious law concerning entry to the site, Temple Mount - 1969 Al-Aqsa arson and aftermath, Temple Mount - Damage to existing structures, Temple Mount - Damage to adjoining areas, Temple Mount - Damage to antiquities, Temple Mount - Management of the site, Temple Mount - Claims of exclusivity, Temple Mount - Jewish claims of exclusivity, Temple Mount - Muslim claims of exclusivity, Temple Mount - Acknowledgements of the bases for its holiness to other religions, Temple Mount - Jewish, Temple Mount - Muslim

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Solomon's Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש, transliterated Beit HaMikdash), also known as the First Temple, was, according to the Torah and the Bible, the first Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. It functioned as a religious focal point for worship and the sacrifices known as the korbanot in ancient Judaism. Completed in the 10th century BCE, it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Solomon's Temple - Biblical account of the Temple's construction. Before his death, King David had provi ...

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• Solomon's Temple - Biblical account of the Temple's construction
• Solomon's Temple - Construction
• Solomon's Temple - Completion
• Solomon's Temple - Ark of the Covenant
• Solomon's Temple - Description
• Solomon's Temple - Furnishings and treasures
• Solomon's Temple - The site
• Solomon's Temple - Comparison with other temples
• Solomon's Temple - Phoenician and Canaanite
• Solomon's Temple - Other Near Eastern temples
• Solomon's Temple - A miniature world
• Solomon's Temple - Raids and destruction
• Solomon's Temple - Artifact controversy
• Solomon's Temple - Notes

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1990 (MCMXC) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. 1990 - Events. January 3 - Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. January 4 - over 300 people were killed in a train accident in Ghotki pakistan. January 7 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. January 9 - Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello, the man who led the coup against Dr Apolo Milton Obote's governmen ...

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• 1990 - Events
• 1990 - February
• 1990 - March
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• 1990 - May
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• 1990 - September
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• 1990 - November
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• 1990 - Births
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• 1990 - Nobel Prizes
• 1990 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1990 - Fields Medalists
• 1990 - Templeton Prize
• 1990 - Right Livelihood Award
• 1990 - Uncertain dates

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The Temple has recognizable similarities to other temples of its time and region. Syro-Phoenician, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian influences are visible. A plaza or courtyard surrounding the sacred residence of the god, marked with stones, is a feature common throughout ancient Semitic religions. Earlier evidence of this practice among the Hebrews survives in the twelve stones that Joshua placed at Gilgal (Joshua 4:20) and the marking of Mount Sinai by Moses (Ex. 19:12), and in the forbidden zone surrounding the tent which was the predecessor of ...

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Solomon's Temple, Solomon's Temple - Biblical account of the Temple's construction, Solomon's Temple - Construction, Solomon's Temple - Completion, Solomon's Temple - Ark of the Covenant, Solomon's Temple - Description, Solomon's Temple - Furnishings and treasures, Solomon's Temple - The site, Solomon's Temple - Comparison with other temples, Solomon's Temple - Phoenician and Canaanite, Solomon's Temple - Other Near Eastern temples, Solomon's Temple - A miniature world, Solomon's Temple - Raids and destruction, Solomon's Temple - Artifact controversy, Solomon's Temple - Notes

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August 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December August 2003 - Events. See also: Afghanistan timeline August 2003 California recall Dodgy Dossier Columbia investigation EU enlargement Hong Kong Basic Law Hutton Inquiry Liberian crisis North Korea crisis Occupation of Iraq: Including:

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• August 2003 - August 1 2003
• August 2003 - Events by month

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Bar Kokhba’s revolt (132-135 CE) against the Roman Empire, also known as The Second Jewish-Roman War or The Second Jewish Revolt, was a second major rebellion by the Jews of Iudaea. Alternatively, some sources call it The Third Revolt, counting also the riots of 115-117, the Kitos War, suppressed by the general Quintus Lucius Quietus who governed the province at the time. Bar Kokhba's revolt - Background. After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE as a result of the failed Great Jewi ...

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• Bar Kokhba's revolt - Background
• Bar Kokhba's revolt - Revolt
• Bar Kokhba's revolt - The Era of the redemption of Israel
• Bar Kokhba's revolt - Roman reaction
• Bar Kokhba's revolt - Outcome of the War and Beginning of another Jewish Diaspora
• Bar Kokhba's revolt - Sources
• Bar Kokhba's revolt - External link

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The axis mundi (world axis), in religion or mythology, is the center of the world and/or the connection between heaven and earth. It is common to virtually all cultures on Earth, although it plays a much more explicit role among indigenous peoples. It is thought that the idea of the Proto-Indo-European religion axis mundi, spread throughout Eurasia, in particular the concept of the world tree. It is familiar today as the caduceus, the symbol of medicine; the staff is the axis itself, and the serpents are the guardians or guides ...

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Bethel (Hebrew בֵּית־אֵל, Standard Hebrew Bet El, Beyt El, Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ-ʼĒl) is a Biblical city in ancient Israel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem in Samaria (Northern West Bank). Bethel has been identified by some with the ruins surrounding the Palestinian village of Beitin and by others with the modern Israeli settlement of Beit El. It is frequently associated with the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob. Abraham made a sanctuary in the area, giving the place the name Bethel, the city call ...

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• Bethel Israel - Sources

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Benjamin Mazar (June 28, 1906 - September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli archaeologist who shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the region's Biblical links. Benjamin Mazar - Background. Born Binyamen Maisler in Ciechanowiec, Poland, he was educated at Berlin and Giessen universities in Germany. At age 23 he emigrated to Palestine (then under the British Mandate) and in 1943 joined the faculty of Hebrew University in Jerusa ...

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• Benjamin Mazar - Background
• Benjamin Mazar - Mazar family
• Benjamin Mazar - Temple Mount controversy

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Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods and descriptions in the Bible. As with the historical records from any other civilization, the manuscripts must be compared to other accounts from contemporary societies in Europe, Mesopotamia, and Africa; additionally, records from neighbors must be compared with them. The scientific techniques employed are those of archaeology in g ...

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• Biblical archaeology - Milestones prior to 1914
• Biblical archaeology - Milestones during 1914 - 1945
• Biblical archaeology - Milestones after 1945
• Biblical archaeology - Confirmed Biblical structures
• Biblical archaeology - Artifacts from documented excavations
• Biblical archaeology - Artifacts with unknown disputed or disproved provenance
• Biblical archaeology - Professional commentary

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The Battle of Beth-zechariah was fought between Jewish and Syrian forces during the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire. In 164 BC, Judas Maccabeus crushed the numerically superior Syrians under Lysias at the Battle of Beth-zur and restored the temple in Jerusalem. However, Seleucid forces still controlled the Acra, a strong fortress within the city that faced the Temple Mount and served as a symbol to remind the Jews that their land was still occupied. Taking advantage of bitter rivalry between Lysias and the recently ...

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A beth din (בית דין, Hebrew: "house of judgment", plural battei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Land of Israel. Today, it is invested with legal powers in a number of religious matters, both in Israel and in Jewish communities throughout the world, where their judgments hold varying degrees of authority (depending upon the jurisdiction and subject matter) in matters specifically germane to Jewish religious life. Beth din - Antiquit ...

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• Beth din - Antiquity
• Beth din - Present situation
• Beth din - Officers of a Beth Din

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Benjamín Urrutia or Benjamin Urrutia (born 1950), author and scholar, was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. According to the Mormon Literature Database[1], Urrutia is "the only LDS Basque Israeli American anthropologist, linguist, and science fiction writer in the universe." Urrutia co-edited, with Guy Davenport, The Logia of Yeshua, which collected what they consider to be Jesus' authentic sayings from a variety of canonical and non-canonical sources. Urrutia interprets Jesus' mission to be that of a leadership role in th ...

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• Benjamín Urrutia - Bibliography

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In the Christian story of the Passion of Jesus, Barabbas, actually Jesus bar-Abbas, (Aramaic Bar-abbâ, "son of the father"), was the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem. The penalty for Barabbas' crime was death by crucifixion, but according to all four Gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judaea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim, and the "crowd" (ochlos) — which b ...

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• Barabbas - Jesus Barabbas
• Barabbas - Barabbas' crime
• Barabbas - Historicity
• Barabbas - Were Barabbas and Jesus the same person?
• Barabbas - A possible parable
• Barabbas - Other uses

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The Cave of the Patriarchs is considered to be the spiritual center of the ancient city of Hebron. It lies in the southwest part of the West Bank, in the heart of ancient Judea. It is called in Hebrew Me'arat HaMakhpela (מערת המכפלה): "The Cave of the 'double' caves or tombs", because (according to Jewish tradition) its hidden twin caves are considered to be the burial place of four "pairs" of important Biblical couples: (1) Adam and Eve; (2) ...

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• Cave of the Patriarchs - Book of Genesis
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Judaism
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Islam
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Status
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Conflict
• Cave of the Patriarchs - Current situation

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The City of David is the original site of Jerusalem from the time of King David. It lies South of the Temple Mount and is surrounded by hills on all sides, hence where it says in Psalms, "Jerusalem with hills around her". The water source of First Temple Jerusalem, the Gihon Spring, lies here. In the 1800's, Jews moved into homes in the City of David. They were eventually evicted during the British Mandate and recently they have been moving back. Today, the City of David has a population of rougly 40% Jews and 60% Arabs. <

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Well of Souls can mean several things: 1. The Well of Souls (אבן השתייה, Bir el- Arweh) is a subterranean chamber beneath the Dome of the Rock in the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The chamber located beneath the rock is known to Jews as Eben Shetiyyah and to Muslims as Sakhrah. Members of these faiths believe it to be the place where God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son: Isaac in the Judeo-Christian tr

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A waqf (Arabic: وقف) is a religious endowment in Islam, typically devoting a building or plot of land for Muslim religious purposes. The practice of declaring property as waqf may also have its origins in the ancient Islamic estate law, whereby a man's property reverted to the nation's ruler upon the man's death. This is unlike other cultures wherein a man's descendants or designees inherit the property. By declaring his estate as waqf and his descendants as trustees, a rich man could ...

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• Waqf - External link

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Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004); President1 of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004 ...

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• Yasser Arafat - Early life
• Yasser Arafat - Fatah and the PLO
• Yasser Arafat - Jordan
• Yasser Arafat - Lebanon
• Yasser Arafat - Tunisia
• Yasser Arafat - Palestinian Authority and peace negotiations
• Yasser Arafat - Political survival and marginalization
• Yasser Arafat - Financial dealings
• Yasser Arafat - Illness and death
• Yasser Arafat - Aftermath
• Yasser Arafat - Bibliography
• Yasser Arafat - Notes

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The Chanuyos was the storehouse for the Israelite Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the Priests (Cohanim) and Levites stored the accoutrements for the daily functioning of the Temple. The Chanuyos consisted of a single room along the southern edge of the Mount, almost 1000 feet long and 105 feet wide. Its single story was 100 feet high. When the Roman government limited the powers of the Sanhedrin, ca. 30 CE, the Sanhedrin moved from their chambers inside the ...

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