This page groups sacred sites by the country they are located in. Wikipedia's list of specific sacred places names sites such as "Yazd Atash Behram" and "the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron," each tied to a specific country. Browsing by country lets a visitor find every sacred site within one nation's borders.
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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.
The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes its significance in the religious world of Second Temple Judaism.
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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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