such a pitch that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke of the gong, to take part in the [...] Early Jewish Community in Rome The diaspora existed at least since the destruction of the first temple in 586/587 BCE, when the Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by the Babylonians and its people were exiled [...] non-Jewish Greeks or Romans who form associations. We see the collection of funds, either for the temple in Jerusalem or for community projects like building upkeep, or for funeral arrangements for various
gesture which is reminiscent of the famous statue of the seer displayed in the Eastern pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia. The most unusual feature are the bird wings which protrude from the back of the [...] and three-quarter columns as well as other parts which strongly recall the architecture of a Greek temple. On all sides of the sarcophagus, the space between the columns above the lattice is filled with
and with some sort of polis control, like control over a treasury. Whether Bendis already had a temple of her own, which Xenophon later refers to ( Hell. 2.4.11) is unknown. She must at least have [...] the same spot as the later Bendideion, which was located on Mounychia Hill in Piraeus, close to the temple of Artemis Mounychia. How did a foreign deity like Bendis receive an officially accepted public
was worshipped in the courtyard of the Erechtheion in classical and presumable near the Old Athena temple in archaic times. Ge Kourotrophos had a shrine near the entrance to Acropolis. The location of these
of Matthew , in fact, relates that immediately after Christ died, the earth shook, the veil in the Temple was torn in two, and many people rose from the dead and walked about in Jerusalem testifying. This