A MODEL OF the Second Temple of Jerusalem. (credit: Prof. Steven Fine) Work on the edifice was completed in the days of Persian king Darius ... to Jerusalem,” (II Kings 18:17).

the Persian king 2,500 years ago. He proclaimed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon could come back and rebuild our Temple in Jerusalem. We remember a hundred years ago, Lord Balfour, who issued the ...

Non-Jews were welcomed to offer gifts and sacrifices, recognizing the Temple as a place where heaven met earth. A MODEL OF the Second Temple of Jerusalem ... The Persian Empire had accumulated ...

Though Jerusalem ... Persia, whom the Jews had aided. Though later rebuilt, historians say that it was eventually abandoned. Yet another Jewish temple was erected at Leontopolis in Egypt in the ...