The cult of the Macca-bean martyrs began to develop very early, so that in the fourth century at the latest, they were celebrated among the Christians. The narrative of the martyrdom of a mother and seven brothers has had an enormous impact on the history of both Church and Synagogue. Why was another temple built just a few tens of minutes walk from the First Temple in Jerusalem? Who built it? What was its role? Does the biblical writer ever mention such a striking building? These are just some of the questions, which will certainly be further extended, when the archaeologists continue with the excavations in Tel Moza, and when they bring us some new discoveries. This contribution attempts to offer an overview of archaeological discoveries from Tel Moza and to set up and analyze the problem from the perspective of the biblical text. An even greater surprise was the discovery that this building was of the same shape as Solomon’s Temple, and most probably, it was built at a similar time. They concluded that this building had a function of a temple during the time of ancient Israel. The Secret of Judahite Temple at Tel MozaĪ short overview of excavations in Tel Moza and analysis of findings from the biblical perspectiveĭue to the construction of a section of the highway from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, the archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority unearthed in the summer of 2012 an imposing building at Tel Mo□a, just seven kilometers away from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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