NOVA | NOVA Short | Recreating the Temple

Gary Glassman, producer and director of NOVAs two-hour special, The Bibles Buried Secrets, and associate producer Tristan Barako take you behind the scenes on a tour of Solomons Temple.

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[alexplainow]

what is this nonsense?!? the 'facts' concocted here are so weak and no different than that of Lunatic Brown's 'da vinci code'....

The information in this video is false...

[mikeneri1]

The whole thing is very weird but I can say that they didn't pick up animal sacrifice from the Egyptians; Egyptians didn't sacrifice animals! Even the mummified cat remains come from cats that died a natural death.

[pillsburydoughboy47]

Altair, you still using that hidden blade?

I'd like to borrow it..... yeah, I've already cut off my finger!

[pillsburydoughboy47]

Okay, do ashkenazi Jews and westerners even BOTHER, to ask Arab scholars how ancient near eastern cities were built?

is their opinion even VALUED?

"AH, YEAH, I am going to assume things about a geographic region and not even ask the neighboring peoples."

Yeah while you do that, I'm going to go to Japan, and try to find out about how the great wall was built without EVER asking any Chinese living in Japan!

[pillsburydoughboy47]

The Arabs in turn had inherited the idea from ancient Babylon, and as the culture of the fertile crescent was all basically the same, Solomon would have built the temple of Yaweh in the center of the city. Oh yeah, put the sacred temple on a high plateau where enemies can arrow it; REAL smart mr. "expert."

[pillsburydoughboy47]

the temple mount is not the Temple of Solomon's location, as it does not follow the general design of ancient near eastern cities. The "mediterranean" convention of placing a Cathedral in the central park of a city, was something that was in fact inherited from the Arabs, that is where Spain got it from, the idea of placing a Mosque, in the center of the city, to symbolize its spiritual heart.

[meggy8868]

2. Israel is the author of ONE God but many Israelites fell away as recorded in the Kings. God then caused them to suffer captivity under Assyria and Babylon! another must see in Israel is the Temple Institute where they are preparing the accoutrements for the temple. They have it all except the red heifer failed. The ark, the rabbis claim to know where it is!

[meggy8868]

1. Solomon's temple has been recreated in scale and may be seen in Jerusalem. It is very dramatic . The temple is different from synagogues!

The pagan imagery would not be kosher in the Temple. I disagree with the narrator who said Israel's temple was Pagan.

[thebig1]

No Christianity is based on Christ not pagan egyptian God's. However I will concede that much of the Art and sclpurers must have been egyptian....afterall the bible says they spent over 200 years there before the exodus.

[every1hatesitschrisc]

"It was 120 cubits (53.4 m; 175 ft) high. Second Chronicles 3:4 presents the height of the porch in the context of other measurements for the house, measurements that are generally accepted and that harmonize with those in First Kings. (Compare 2Ch 3:3, 4 with 1Ki 6:2, 3, 17, 20.)"