Was the Temple on Mount Gerizim Modelled after the Jerusalem Temple?

The Psalms as Hymns in the Temple of Jerusalem

From as far back as our sources allow, hymns were part of Near Eastern temple ritual, with their performers an essential component of the temple functionaries. 1 These sources include Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian texts from as early as the third millennium BCE. From the second millennium BCE, we gain further examples of hymns from the Hittite realm, even if most (if not all) of the poems ar...

The Temple Web Translator

New Web sites in foreign languages are appearing everyday, and language barriers threaten to atomize the World Wide Web into closed linguistic communities. The Temple project has developed an open multilingual architecture and software support for rapid development of machine translation systems for assimilation purposes. The targeted languages are those for which natural language processing an...

Cheryl Temple

Exophytic Tumor on the Left Temple.

The Manipulation of Sacred Places: The Role of Jerusalem's Temple Mount in the Construction of Identity