Temple’s Location NOT beneath Dome of the Rock
Israeli Archaeologist Claims He Has Found Temple’s Location and it is NOT beneath the Dome of the Rock: The possible new location “leaves the rock (in the Dome of the Rock) outside of the confines of the Temple itself.”
WorldNetDaily reports that, using 140 year-old maps by British explorer Sir Charles Wilson and passages from the Jewish Mishnah, Israeli archaeologist and university professor Joseph Patrich says he has pinpointed the location of the sacred Jewish Temple…and it is not on the site of the Dome of the Rock.
In 1866, on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Charles Wilson is said to have mapped a series of ancient cisterns below the present Temple Mount platform. It is one of those, Patrich notes, that preserves a vestige of the Temple that stood until it was destroyed by Rome in A.D. 70.
According to the report, Patrich believes the Temple, its corresponding courtyards, chambers and gates were oriented in a more southeasterly direction, sitting diagonally on what is the modern Temple Mount, rather than closer to today’s Western Wall as many believe.
In essence, Patrich’s siting “has the Temple further east and south of locations proposed by other scholars and diagonal, rather than perpendicular to the Temple Mount’s eastern and western walls. It also leaves the rock in the Dome of the Rock outside of the confines of the Temple itself.” Source: WorldNetDaily
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