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- Research Paper On The History of The Temple (Solomon Temple, Zerubbabel's Temple, Herod's Temple)
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Student Name: George Kouranos
Course Name: The twelve tribes and the history of Israel 503OT
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- 1,500 words (4-5 pages)
- Thorough Research
- Five References, (at least 3 different books)
- 12 font, double spaced, Justified Margins
All Footnotes and Bibliographies Must Be Arranged According to the following format:
- Your footnotes and endnotes are to be the same number (if you have 5 footnotes you should have five references on your bibliography page)
- Your footnotes should be numbered and located on the bottom of the page
- Your bibliography is the collection of footnotes and arranged numerically.

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George Kouranos
The Twelve Tribes and the History of Israel 503OT
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Solomon Temple
According to the Bible and Torah, the Temple (also referred to as the First Temple) was
the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem. It operated as a religious periphery for worship and the
sacrifices known as the korbanot in prehistoric Judaism. According to the Hebrew Bible,
Solomon was given the plans for the first temple by his father, King David1. The Temple is
regarded by a majority of biblical scholars as the symbolic representation of the divine abode of
creation and the paradisiacal Garden of Eden2. King Solomon built the temple on the eastern part
of Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. Before King David's death, he had provided resources in
abundance for the construction of the temple on the pinnacle of Mount Moriah where he had
bought a threshing floor from a Jebusite, Araunah, on which he offered sacrifices.
At the beginning of his reign, King Solomon set about implementing the ideas of his
father and prepared extra materials for the construction of the temple. From underground mines
at Jerusalem, he acquired large blocks of stone for the temple's foundation and walls. These
stones were set for their places in the structure under the supervision of Tyrian chief builders.
King Solomon made a pack with the King of Tyre, Hiram I, for the supply of anything
else required for the construction, mainly timber from the woodlands of Lebanon, which was
transported in huge rafts through the sea to Joppa, where it was hauled to Jerusalem (1 Kings 5).
Based on custom, Solomon also offered an adequate supply of water for the temple by hacking in
the rock-strewn mountain vast cisterns, into which water was transported by canals from the
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Goldhill, Simon. The Temple of Jerusalem. Vol. 4. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth. "‘Who Is the King of Glory? ‘Solomon’s Temple and Its Symbolism." Scripture and Other
Artifacts: Essays on the Bible and Archaeology in Honor of Philip J. King (1994): 18-31.
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ponds near Bethlehem. The vast sea, one of the reservoirs, had the capability of covering three
million gallons of water. The overflow was led off by a conduit to the Kidron.
According to tradition, in all these preliminary activities a gra...
