Architecture and Utopia in the Temple Era

This book proposes a new reconstruction of the Temple, which differs from conventional descriptions in Jewish literary sources during the First and Second Temple eras.

Individual descriptions of the Temple are examined independently and the influence of earlier descriptions on subsequent ones is considered. Detailed architectural diagrams and three-dimensional models accompany the different reconstructions of the temple.

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Meeting-Tent Tabernacle Temple

Chapter 2 - From Tent to Tent and Tabernacle

Chapter 3 - The First Temple in Jerusalem

Chapter 4 - The Temple of the Temple Scroll

Chapter 5 - The Second Temple

Chapter 6 - The Utopian State and the Ideal City

Chapter 7 - Jewish Design Thinking in the First and Second Temple Periods

Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Architecture and Utopia - Theory and Practice

Appendix A: Number Mysticism in the Ancient World and in the Scriptures

Appendix B: A Modular and Arithmetological Analysis of the Temples