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Broadsheet Accompanying Model of the Tabernacle
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This broadsheet is based on a famous model of the Temple in Jerusalem, owned by Jacob Judah Leon, a rabbi from the Netherlands. Probably produced in Amsterdam, the poster includes illustrations of the…

Contributor:

Jacob Judah Leon Templo

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1652

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Temple, Cities, Portrait, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Architecture
Broadsheet with Dutch text on left and right margins, with large illustrated map in the middle of many squares and lines. Around the map are five images in squares: a man in hat and moustache, layers of priestly garments, a smaller map, rectangular building, and items of worship such as a candelabrum.
The Temple of Solomon
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These two modern depictions of the Temple built by King Solomon on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem are based on biblical descriptions and pertinent archaeological evidence from other sanctuaries and…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Temple, Art, Scholarship, Ritual object

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Digital illustration of three-story building with many evenly spaced windows and two columns in front.
Map of the Land of Israel
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This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century, is based on Rashi’s…

Contributor:

Ḥayim ben Bezalel

Places:

Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Friedburg (Friedberg, Germany)

Date:

Late 15th or 16th Century

Subjects:

Art, Cities, Temple, Bible, Allegory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, History, Architecture
Manuscript page with drawings of buildings and boats spread across the page with Hebrew labels.
Sha‘ar Hashamayim Synagogue Dome
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When it was first built, the Sha‘ar Hashamayim (Gate of Heaven) Synagogue in Cairo was the largest building on the boulevard where it still stands. Built to resemble what was imagined to be the design…

Contributor:

Maurice Joseph Cattaui, Eduard Matasek

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Art, Synagogue, Temple, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of domed ceiling covered with geometric shapes, including Stars of David.
Lampstand (Menorah) Depiction from Roman Period Jerusalem
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Lampstand (menorah) depiction from Jerusalem in a plaster engraving (1st century BCE–1st century CE). It is difficult to reconstruct what the lampstands of Exodus 25:31–35 and 1 Kings 7:49 looked like…

Places:

Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Roman Period, 1st Century BCE or CE

Subjects:

Temple, Ritual object, Art, Hanukkah, Archaeology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Biblical Law, Sculpture, Law
Plaster relief with image of seven-branched candelabrum.