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This page groups sacred sites by the year their sacred standing is first dated to. Wikipedia notes that the relics of the apostle James "discovered c. 830" are what made Santiago de Compostela a pilgrimage destination. Browsing by start year lets a visitor compare how old one site's sacred status is against another's.

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"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
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Sites 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
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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.

Origin Period Start Year
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Shaye J. D. Cohen, Westminster John Knox Press, 2006View the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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