Israel/Palestine

allegedly. there’s no proof that was the location of some grand temple. maybe lots of jewish stuff retroactively lands itself right underneath islamic structures. did you ever think of that? jealous much?

anyway, i’m not questioning whether jews had a special temple, or two or three or four.

but when jon says “The existense of the Second Temple on the Temple Mount is not in question. ” it just makes sense to me that one might call the location of ones temple ‘the temple mount’. but why should i have any certainty the mount of a jewish temple was in the location of al aqsa mosque?

i’m sticking by my earlier statement, there’s no proof that was the location of some grand temple. there is no ‘fact’ a temple was once located on the place we call today the temple mount, and it is not “pretty clear”.

The existense of the Second Temple on the Temple Mount is not in question.

by you jon, but not by me.

and in case anyone is listening in, i am not saying, nor do i believe there is “no evidence of any Jewish presence in the area and every bit of archaeology found there is fake”. it just means i don’t believe biblical lore.