TY - GEN
T1 - The architectural origins of Herod's Temple Mount
AU - Bahat, Dan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Herod's Temple complex in Jerusalem differed from his other building projects in one important respect. Whereas he and his architects were given a clean slate for his other monumental schemes, in the case of the Temple they were constrained by the pre-existing arrangement of the Temple Mount. There were also Biblical prescriptions governing the location, design and dimensions of the Temple Sanctuary which had to be obeyed. In order to reconstruct the layout of Herod's Temple complex, and ascertain the areas where his architects could apply Graeco-Roman architectural norms, it is therefore essential to establish the scheme of the pre-existing Temple Mount, and this paper attempts to supply the answer.
AB - Herod's Temple complex in Jerusalem differed from his other building projects in one important respect. Whereas he and his architects were given a clean slate for his other monumental schemes, in the case of the Temple they were constrained by the pre-existing arrangement of the Temple Mount. There were also Biblical prescriptions governing the location, design and dimensions of the Temple Sanctuary which had to be obeyed. In order to reconstruct the layout of Herod's Temple complex, and ascertain the areas where his architects could apply Graeco-Roman architectural norms, it is therefore essential to establish the scheme of the pre-existing Temple Mount, and this paper attempts to supply the answer.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85005878441&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1163/ej.9789004165465.i-418.57
DO - 10.1163/ej.9789004165465.i-418.57
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AN - SCOPUS:85005878441
T3 - IJS Studies in Judaica
SP - 235
EP - 245
BT - Herod and Augustus - Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 21st-23rd June 2005
A2 - Jacobson, David M.
A2 - Kokkinos, Nikos
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
ER -