This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: …that it is almost impossible they should have disappeared as they have done. In fact, turn it which way you will, the Sakhra was not the site of the Jewish altar, and never could have been. 1 st, It was outside the Temple area; 2nd, The Kock theory is a mere Mahometan tradition, which has been adopted without thinking; and lastly, there is no site for the Temple behind it, while every indication on the spot contradicts such a hypothesis. volume. There is one watercourse, discovered by Dr. Barclay, and marked on Pie ward, or in tho exactly opposite direction to the specification in the Talmud. 2 Chronicles iv. 1. rotti’s plan, running towards the j t Josephus, B. J. v. 5, 6; Midsouth-west, which exactly accords doth, chap. iii. sec. 4. with the description of the Talmud, I X Josephus, B. J. v. 5, 4. On the other hand, if we place the altar where shown in the plans given above, and assign to the Temple the limits and the site there shown, every local peculiarity agrees with such a position, while every historical deduction confirms the local indications. Part IV. HISTORY. There is still one point which requires to be alluded to before the argument can be considered as complete. It is this. Even if we assume it as quite certain that the Temple was only 600 feet square, and that it was situated in the south-west angle of the Haram area, and consequently excluded the site of the Dome of the Rock from its precincts, still it may be argued that by the time of the Mahometan invasion the knowledge of that fact was lost, and the Moslems may have believed that the Temple extended very much farther north than it really did. Fortunately, the proof that this was not the case is as clear as that which has preceded, though, perhaps, not so easily explained, i…
