Temple Mount Faithful

The “Temple Mount Faithful” have recently posted their views on Arab-Israeli peace issues:

http://www.templemountfaithful.org/Articles/evil-coalition-wages-another-battle-against-the-existence-of-israel.htm

Even though Third Temple movements are a small minority, it makes one despair of any hope for peace.

If you’re worried about the end of the world in 2012

Then David Stuart’s, The Order of Days: the Maya World and the Truth about 2012, (2011), ISBN-10: 0385527268 might cheer you up a bit.  It’s a debunking of the Maya end of the world theory–which is actually simply that the Maya Long Count calendar recycles to 0.0.0.0.0.0.  It can actually start over the next day.

Menorah and Temple Mount view

My 360 degree Panorama of the Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif) overlook where the Temple Institute has place a replica of the Temple Menorah which they hope to eventually place in the rebuilt 3rd Temple, which they hope will replace the Dome of the Rock.

History of the Ancient Near East in Rap

With footnotes, no less!

http://www.flocabulary.com/fertile-crescent-civilizations/

Dura Europos on display in NYC

This exhibit would be worth a trip to New York to see (though I’ve seen the original in the  Damascus museum.)

http://www.observer.com/2011/09/earliest-known-images-of-christ-on-display-at-nyu/

Psalms of Ascent

Recreation of ancient Psalms of Ascent ritual on the southern steps of the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/Jerusalem/Article.aspx?id=238580

My understanding is that the Psalms of Ascent were sung inside the sanctuary, not on the steps leading to the sanctuary.

More calls to rebuild the Temple

More Jewish agitation to rebuild the temple on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148029#.TnfVpetNOPA

New Book Note: Bellah, “Religion and Human Evolution”

An interesting new book has recently been published:

Robert Bellah, Religion and Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Harvard, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-0674061439, $25 on Amazon

I haven’t read it yet.  (Alas, interesting new books are coming out faster than I can read them!)  It begins Stone Age religion with the last for chapters on the Axial Age (which Nibley liked to talk about.)

Mythos of the Temple Church, London

My photos of a stained glass window in the Temple Church, London, showing the mythos of the Temple Church.  The widows are 20th century, depicting the mythos of the Temple Church as a successor to the medieval Templars, and to the biblical temple of Solomon.

 

 

Temple Church, London, 360 panorama of the dome

My 360 degree panorama of the interior of the dome of the Temple Church in London

http://www.360cities.net/image/temple-church-london-interior-dome