The Second Temple period or post-exilic period in Jewish history denotes the approximately 600 years (516 BCE – 70 CE) during which the Second Temple stood...

Herod's Temple, was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem between c. 516 BCE and 70 CE. Defining the Second Temple period, it stood as a pivotal symbol of...

The Second Temple period in Jewish history began with the end of the Babylonian captivity and the Persian conquest of the Near East in 539 BCE. The Second...

Second Temple Judaism is the Jewish religion as it developed during the Second Temple period, which began with the construction of the Second Temple around...

Jerusalem during the Second Temple period describes the history of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, from the return to Zion under Cyrus the...

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by the Second Temple, marking the beginning of the Second Temple period. Iron Age I: 1150–950 BCE Iron Age II: 950–586 BCE The Iron Age II period is followed...

the Second Temple period (Hebrew: דגם ירושלים בסוף ימי בית שני) is a 1:50 scale model of the city of Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period. The...

Jews were allowed to return and rebuild the temple; these events mark the beginning of the Second Temple period. After several centuries of foreign rule...

human beings to know what the world to come is like. In the late Second Temple period, beliefs about the ultimate fate of an individual were diverse. The...

During the Second Temple Period, Jerusalem was the center of religious and national life for Jews, including those in the Diaspora. The Second Temple attracted...

Bible or in the New Testament. The term was used throughout the Second Temple period, however, the term Mount Zion – which today refers to the eastern...

as a weight. During the Second Temple period, it was customary among Jews to annually offer the half-Shekel into the Temple treasury, for the upkeep...

the Achaemenid Persian Empire. While the Second Temple stood for a longer period of time than the First Temple, it was likewise destroyed during the Roman...

representations of the menorah from the First Temple period, but some examples dating from the Second Temple period have been recorded. Menorah images that...

years to the days of King David and the First Temple period, as well as from the Second Temple period. It also shows artifacts, including pottery, glass...

history, and smaller than it had been in its peak, during the late Second Temple period. The Old City's current layout has been documented in significant...

important Jewish scribe (sofer) and priest (kohen) in the early Second Temple period. In Greco-Latin Ezra is called Esdras (Greek: Ἔσδρας). His name is...

the Second Temple Period, where there was a conflict between Hellenizers and traditionalists. The major literary product of the contact between Second Temple...

of solidarity for the Jewish ethnos. In his works from the late Second Temple period, Philo of Alexandria made comments that reflected the features of...

Jewish messianism gave birth to Christianity, which started as a Second Temple period messianic Jewish sect or religious movement. In Jewish eschatology...

Jews active in Judea during the Second Temple period, from the second century BCE to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The Sadducees are described...

regulations in the Zoroastrian faith concerning the astudans. During the Second Temple period, Jewish burial customs were varied, differing based on class and...

Baptist in the early 1st century AD. It is roughly contiguous with the Second Temple period (516 BC-70 AD) and encompasses the age of Hellenistic Judaism. It...

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Second Temple period and continued into the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. Use of the tombs has been recorded as recently as the late Roman period...

engineered the fall of Adam and Eve with a snake in writings during the Second Temple period. However, the serpent is not a form of Samael, but a beast he rode...

beginning of the Second Temple period until the Muslim conquest—the land was part of imperial space. This was true from the early Persian period, as well as...

remained a part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. By the end of the Second Temple period, Jerusalem's size and population had reached a peak that would not...

in the Land of Israel, where it originated and evolved during the Second Temple Period, influenced by various empires. This artistic tradition underwent...