Early Accounts of the Temple of Jerusalem – Sources     HomeSourcesTopicsViews


Event Description
Event Date
Later Documents Recording The Event
Views
The Tabernacle of Moses
c. 1250 BCE
Exodus 24–31
View   View
King David prepares the Temple
1000 BCE
I Chronicles 21–29     II Samuel 6–8, 24
View
The Temple of King Solomon
961 BCE
I Kings 5–8     II Chronicles 2–6
View
Solomon's Temple (Josephus)
961 BCE
Josephus, Antiquities 8:3–5
View
Sennacherib's war with Hezekiah
701 BCE
Sennacherib's cuneiform cylinder     Alternate source
The Temple is destroyed
586 BCE
II Kings 24–25     II Chronicles 36
Ezekiel's vision of a new Temple
c. 580 BCE
Ezekiel 40–48
View
The Second Temple is built
515 BCE
Ezra 1, 3, 5–6     I Esdras 6
Jerusalem is rebuilt
440 BCE
Nehemiah 1–3, 12
View
Description of the Temple
c. 200 BCE
Letter of Aristeas 83–120
The Temple is plundered, rebuilt
167 BCE
I Maccabees 1–4
View
The Second Temple of Herod
c. 20 BCE
Josephus, Antiquities 15:11     18:4     20:9
View
Herod's Temple (continued)
c. 20 BCE
Josephus, Wars 1:21     Wars 5:4–5     Apion 2:8
View
The Temple Warning Inscription
c. 20 BCE
The Temple Warning Inscription Stone
The Temple is destroyed
70 CE
Josephus, Wars 6:1–10
The Seige by Titus
70 CE
Tacitus, The Histories, V, 1–14
The Destruction by Titus
70 CE
Cassius Dio, Roman History, LXV, 1–12
Titus's Triumphal Procession
71 CE
Josephus, Wars 7:5
View
The Second Temple as it was
c. 100 CE
The Mishnah, the tractate Middot 1–5
Emp. Hadrian Builds up Jerusalem
117 CE
Epiphanius, De Mensuribus et Ponderibus, 14–15
Emp. Hadrian's Destruction
135 CE
Cassius Dio, Roman History, LXIX, 12–14
Emp. Hadrian's Interdiction
135 CE
Eusebius, Church History, IV, 6
The Pilgrim from Bordeaux
333 CE
The Itinerary
View
Julian begins to rebuild the Temple
362 CE
Julian, Letter To the Community of the Jews
Julian begins to rebuild the Temple
362 CE
Gregory of Nazianzus, Second Invective Against Julian
Julian begins to rebuild the Temple
362 CE
Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, XXIII, 1
Julian begins to rebuild the Temple
362 CE
Philostorgius, Eccl. Hist. VII,9     Theodoret, Ecll. Hist. III,15
Julian begins to rebuild the Temple
362 CE
Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, III, 20
Julian begins to rebuild the Temple
362 CE
Sozomen, Historia Ecclesiastica, V, 22
Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons
c. 425 CE
Letter to the presbyter Faustus
Justinian's Building Projects
530 CE
Procopius, peri ktismaton, De Aedificiis V, 6
View
The Temple Treasures Lost
614 CE
Josephus     Procopius     Strategos
Bishop Arculf
c. 670 CE
Regarding the Holy Places 1:1
The Venerable Bede
c. 690 CE
Regarding the Holy Places 1–2
Theophanes
c. 800 CE
Chronographia [transl. 1890]
Theophanes
c. 800 CE
Chronographia [transl. 1977]
Eutychius
876 CE
Nazm al Gawahir, Annales Eutychii
Nasir-i-Khusrau
1047 CE
Diary of a Journey Through Syria and Palestine
Petrus Diaconus
c. 1137 CE
Regarding the Holy Places §§ 1120–1121
Benjamin of Tudela
1173 CE
Itinerary
Khalif Omar at the Temple
1351 CE
Muthîr al Ghiram
Earthquakes at Al Aksâ
1351 CE
Muthîr al Ghiram
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount
1544 CE
A map, Sebastian Munster, 1550





© 2005, 2007   A. vander Nat   Email   08-2007 Go to:   A. vander Nat's Homepage