NobleSavage
Veteran Member
I have friends traveling in Israel. One of them just posted this on her blog:
How much of this is fact and how much is fantasy? Ok, the Western Wall is located in the Old City, but what about the rest? Are we sure that King Solomon existed? The Ark of the Covenant sounds like total BS. I buy the part about the Romans...
Next we found ourselves at the Western Wall, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City. King Solomon built the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem sometime between 970 – 930 BC to hold the Ark of the Covenant (the tablets on which the 10 commandments are inscribed). In 587 BC the Babylonians captured Jerusalem and burned the temple. In the 6th century BC the Jewish people rebuilt the temple, but it was again destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans. The only remaining part of the temple is the Western Wall. It is the holiest site in the world for Jews.
How much of this is fact and how much is fantasy? Ok, the Western Wall is located in the Old City, but what about the rest? Are we sure that King Solomon existed? The Ark of the Covenant sounds like total BS. I buy the part about the Romans...