Sites significant to Jewish practice during the Second Temple period, from the temple's rebuilding after the Babylonian exile to its destruction by Rome, a period that shaped much of later Jewish, Christian and to some extent Islamic sacred geography. Sacred sites are grouped by tradition at a fine grain here, so a heading can be narrow without that saying anything about the tradition's own reach.
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Whose Classification This Is"Second Temple Judaism" is a modern scholarly periodisation, not a name any of these communities used of themselves. Its conventional bounds are 516 BCE to 70 CE, and what it collects is a plurality of Judaisms - priestly, Pharisaic, sectarian, Hellenistic - rather than one religion with one centre. 2 Overview
What Defines This GroupingSites of the Jewish world between the rebuilding of the Temple after the Babylonian exile and its destruction by Rome - the period that produced the sectarian movements out of which both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity came. 2 Learn More
Second Temple Jewish sites
This small group holds a sacred site of Second Temple Judaism, the period of Jewish history from the rebuilding of the Temple after the Babylonian exile to its destruction by Rome in 70 CE, a formative era for both Judaism and early Christianity.
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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