Temple in Jerusalem

there even after they took the city, and the historian almost paints it as a merciless killing of many people. He writes, “Next morning, they went cautiously up on the Temple roof and attacked the Saracens, both men and women, cutting off their heads with drawn swords. Some of the Saracens threw themselves down headlong from the temple…” With this description, the Crusades begin to sound more and more like a quest for power than one for a religious…

The holiday that I celebrate is Christmas because I’m Christian and that’s my religion to celebrate Christmas me and my family we all get together at my house Christmas eve and we make ginger bread houses and watch Christmas movies on Netflix and we get to open one present that night and then Christmas day we wake up and my mom and mom mom cook a big breakfast for the whole family and we sit down and eat and enjoy the food and then when were all done we go sit around the tree and start opening…

In its present form, the book is divided into five sections: Psalms 1–41; Psalms 42–72; Psalms 73–89; Psalms 90–106; and Psalms 107–150. The psalms were used in connection with worship services conducted in the Temple at Jerusalem. The Jews were required to annually attend services at the central sanctuary and these psalms were sung on their pilgrimage. Some of the hymns were responsorial (antiphonal) and formed an essential part of the worship service. Hymns and prayers…

Christianity and Judaism are two very popular religions in society today. The two religions have similar origins but they do have different beliefs and teachings. It is important to note the differences between the two, but also the similarities. The similarities these two religions share begins with the belief in one true god. The two religions also believe in the same three spiritual beings, angels, demons and spirits. Both religions also believe that the death of Jesus was caused by…

who is also credited to have built the Colosseum. The major accomplishments of Titus include the construction of the Colosseum, rebuilding post the 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius and 80 C.E. fire in Rome. He is also victorious in the Siege of Jerusalem (First Jewish-Roman War) in the year 70 C.E., in which 1.1 million mostly Jewish…

agency.” Luke believed it was necessary to show Jesus fully obeying God. Some of Jesus’ obedience to God is from a human child’s perspective. As a child raised and trained in the Jewish tradition, Luke’s Jesus would have understood the value of the temple, the priests, and Jewish celebrations. Evidence of Jesus’ Jewish education is demonstrated…

Christ Rejected by the Elders in the Temple The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) houses some of Philadelphia’s oldest, most historic and most renowned pieces of artwork in its Landmark Building built in 1876. Naturally, I felt it was my duty to peruse PAFA in hopes of finding a Philadelphian artifact that interested me. I stumbled upon the gigantic 200 x 260 in. (52,000 in2) oil painting, Christ Rejected (by the Elders in the Temple), created by Philadelphian artist of the 18th-19th…

New Testament Sadducees, are descendants from Hasmonean families (Middendorf 50). The Sadducees are from the known parts of Jerusalem (Middendorf 50). They belong to the upper classes of Israel and are high priestly families (The Jewish Religious System). The Sadducees are leaders in the Jewish culture, yet rejected all supernatural objectives. They did not believe in the “popular beliefs of angels, spirits, and the resurrection of the dead” (Middendorf 50). The Sadducees had talked with…

In the year 576 BCE the Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar commissioned his builders to construct and design a monumental gate on the outskirts of the city. The gate was situated at the main entrance to the promenade, north of the city’s border to the temple of Marduk, chief God of Mesopotamian. The monument was dedicated and named after Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of; love, fertility, war and sex. (Wikipedia) If thou openest not the gate to let me enter, I will break the door, I will…

The afterlife in Second Temple includes the rumor of the death of Antiochus IV, which was not true which lead to a jewish revolt. The result was Antiochus IV came back and destroyed Jerusalem and made the Jerusalem temple dedicated to the Olympian Zeus. Second Temple also included the invasion of Egypt by Epiphanies IV. Other key differs in Second Temple was they celebrated Dionysus’ festivals and there was a pagan alter in place of the temple and any jews who refused to follow Antiochus…