Not In Salem

May 1, 2021 According to the Biblical narrative, Solomon’s Temple, also known as the First Temple, was a Temple in Salem (בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ: Beit Ha-Miqdash) built under King Solomon’s reign and completed in 957 BCE. The Temple was looted and then destroyed in 586 – 587 BCE at the hands of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, who also deported the Jews to Babylon. The destruction of the temple […]

Is Israel really the land of the Bible?

Monday, 8 February 2016 Fascinating stuff, finding Jewish Torah and biblical place names in western Arabia and why shouldn’t there be? We know that civilization migrated out of Sumer into Egypt, then into Israel, and the rest of the world from there. The interesting thing is though is what lies between Sumer and Egypt; western […]