The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.

The Jerusalem Talmud has preserved a large number of his halakic and aggadistic utterances ; and the Palestinian Midrashim also contain many of his aggadot.

After 12 years Nehemiah returns to Susa ; he later comes back to Jerusalem, and finds that there has been backsliding in his absence.

Another important passage was Isaiah 40: 3 – 5, which imagines the exiled Israel proceeding home to Jerusalem on a newly-constructed road, led by the victorious Yahweh who has conquered the gods of Babylon.

John Robinson in " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ) has heavily criticised Charles ' position and accepted apostolic authorship, dating John's Gospel before the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

* The final temple vision, in which Ezekiel is transported to Jerusalem and sees a new commonwealth centered around a new Temple to which God's glory has returned ( Ezekiel 40-48 )

: Luke 21. 20-21 ( ESV ) " But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

The prophet has a vision of the angel Gabriel, who tells him, " Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city ( i. e., Israel and Jerusalem ).

The last time we saw the tree of life was in the Garden of Eden. 2: 9 God drove Adam and Eve away from it because it bestowed eternal life and he did not want them to have it in their degraded state. 3: 22 In the New Jerusalem, the tree of life reappears, and everyone in the city has access to it.

What began with rules (" canons ") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew ( Old Testament ), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.

The antiquity of the creed has been located by most biblical scholars to no more than five years after Jesus ' death, probably originating from the Jerusalem apostolic community.

It has been theorized by recent scholars that the Qumran library was not entirely produced at Qumran, but may have included part of the library of the Jerusalem Temple, that may have been hidden in the caves for safekeeping at the time the Temple was destroyed by Romans in 70 AD.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

The use of tabernacle terminology in Hebrews has been used to date the epistle before the destruction of the temple, the idea being that knowing about the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple would have influenced the development of the author's overall argument to include such evidence.

( 4 ) The aorist eftasen (" has overtaken ") refers to the destruction of Jerusalem ( 5 ) The syntax of 1 Thes.

John, by contrast, puts the Temple incident very early in Jesus ' ministry, has several trips to Jerusalem, and puts the crucifixion immediately before the Passover holiday, on the day when the lambs for the Passover meal were being sacrificed in Temple.

It has become generally accepted that certain sayings in John are as old or older than their synoptic counterparts, that John's knowledge of things around Jerusalem is often superior to the synoptics, and that his presentation of Jesus ' agony in the garden and the prior meeting held by the Jewish authorities are possibly more historically accurate than their synoptic parallels.

Against this, Robinson points out that all the synoptics are agreed that, when Jesus arrives in Jerusalem in the week before his death, he already has a number of followers and disciples in the city, notably Joseph of Arimathea, and the unnamed landlord of the upper room, who knows Jesus as ' the Master '.

Against this John Robinson notes the numerous instances in the Synoptic account of Jesus ' final days in Jerusalem, when it is implied that he has been there before.

Clause 3. provided that " Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem ... shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948.

Kushner has also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, taught at Clark University and the Rabbinical School of the JTS, and received six honorary doctorates.

TERMINATION OF MANDATE, PARTITION AND INDEPENDENCE: Clause 3. provides :- Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, ..., shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948.

The James referred to in this passage is most likely James the first bishop of Jerusalem who is also called James the Just in Christian literature, and to whom the Epistle of James has been attributed.

However, the account of Josephus differs from that of later works by Hegesippus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, and Eusebius of Caesarea that it simply has James stoned while the others have other variations such as having James thrown from the top of the Temple, stoned, and finally beaten to death by laundrymen as well as his death occurring during the siege of Jerusalem in AD 69.

" The rise of Christian Zionism — that is, religiously motivated Christian interest and support for the state of Israel — along with a growth of philo-Semitism ( love of the Jewish people ) has increased interest among American Evangelicals in Judaism, especially areas of commonality with their own beliefs, see also Jerusalem in Christianity.

On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.

While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.

Aelia Capitolina (; Latin in full: Colonia Aelia Capitolina ) was a city built by the emperor Hadrian, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins since 70 AD, leading in part to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 – 136.

Although Eusebius does not say as much, the temple of Aphrodite was probably built as part of Hadrian's reconstruction of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina in 135, following the destruction of the Jewish Revolt of 70 and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 – 135.

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

David conquers the Jebusite fortress of Jerusalem, and makes it his capital, and " Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

" David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, intending to build a temple, but God, speaking to the prophet Nathan, is pleased, saying the temple will be built.

Remnants of the Broad Wall ( Jerusalem ) | Broad Wall of biblical Jerusalem, built during Hezekiah's days against Sennacherib's siege

: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it ; and they built forts against it round about.

* Jebusite, a Canaanite tribe who inhabited and built Jerusalem prior to its conquest by King David

Movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. told his earliest followers that the Garden of Eden had been located in Jackson County, and that the New Jerusalem where Jesus will come in the Second Coming would be built in Independence.

Mormons believe the people of the Book of Mormon lived in the western hemisphere, that Christ appeared in the western hemisphere after his death and resurrection, that the true faith was restored in upstate New York by Joseph Smith, that the Garden of Eden was located in North America, and that the New Jerusalem would be built in Missouri.

Since Matthew 24 begins with Jesus visiting the Jerusalem Temple and pronouncing that " there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down " ( vs. 3 ), preterists see nothing in Scripture to indicate that another Jewish temple will ever be built.

The last straw was a series of laws enacted by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, including an attempt to prevent Jews from living in Jerusalem ; a new Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, was to be built in its place.

Since Matthew 24 begins with Jesus visiting the Jerusalem Temple and pronouncing that " there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down " ( vs. 3 ), preterists see nothing in Scripture to indicate that another Jewish temple will ever be built.

* The New Gate is built in Jerusalem.

* The Crusader castle of Montreal is built by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

The majority of the Jewish population lived on the outskirts of Hebron along the roads to Be ' ersheba and Jerusalem, renting homes owned by Arabs, a number of which were built for the express purpose of housing Jewish tenants, with a few dozen within the city around the synagogues.

The runestones further tell that a barrow and a bridge were built and that two of the runestones were raised by the brothers Ingefast, Östen and Sven in memory of their father Östen, who had fought in Jerusalem and died in the Byzantine Empire.

Water and sewage pipes on the exterior of a Jerusalem building built around 1930

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the site where the First Temple of Solomon and the Second Temple were built.

Valletta contains buildings from the 16th century onwards, built during the rule of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, also known as Knights Hospitaller.

The city of Aelia Capitolina was built in 130 CE by the Roman emperor Hadrian, and occupied by a Roman colony on the site of Jerusalem, which was still in ruins from the First Jewish Revolt in 70 CE.