Emphasis Preaching Journal

A few years ago, a biblical scholar and sometime-archaeologist published the fruits of years of his research. His central claim was so controversial that few scholars embraced it. Still, the arguments are intriguing. The researcher's thesis was that Solomon's temple, destroyed by the Babylonians, and replaced by one later destroyed by the Romans, could not possibly have stood on what is today called the "Temple Mount" in Old City Jerusalem. The reason?