Splendor, Destruction, and Reconstruction: Who Really Lived at the Foot of the Temple Mount During the Second Temple Period?

Name: Splendor, Destruction, and Reconstruction: Who Really Lived at the Foot of the Temple Mount During the Second Temple Period?
Start: 2026-12-27T15:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-12-27T16:00:00.000Z
Location: Yad Ben Zvi

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December 27, 5:00 – 6:00 in the evening · 1h

Yad Ben Zvi

Ibn Gabirol St 14, Jerusalem

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Summary

A lecture on the process of urbanization and construction at the foot of the Temple Mount from the Second Temple period through Aelia Capitolina. At the Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 14 Ibn Gabirol Street, Jerusalem.

Descriptiontranslated from Hebrew (original)

Many assume that the area between the Western Wall of the Temple Mount and the rocky cliff of the western hill was considered Jerusalem’s most valuable real estate because of its proximity to the Temple, and therefore served as the residence of the upper tenth of Second Temple-period society. In the lecture, we will examine whether this assumption is correct and try to trace the process of urbanization and construction in this area from the Second Temple period through the days of Aelia Capitolina. We will learn what the landscape looked like and what structures stood there, and consider the upheavals of the various periods and how they affected the appearance of the area.

Meeting point: Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi – 14 Ibn Gabirol Street
Doors open: 16:30

Organizer: Yad Ben Zvi

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