What is Second Temple?
[[Image:Jerusalem Modell BW 3.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Model of [[Herod's Temple]]]]The '''Second Temple''' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: בית המקדש, ''Holy House'') was the reconstructed [[Temple in Jerusalem]] which stood between 516 [[Before Christ|BC]] and 70 [[Anno Domini|AD]]. It is also known as the '''Herod's Temple'''. Back then, it was the center of [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[worship]]. The [[Roman Empire|Romans]] burned down [[Jerusalem]] and its Second Temple on August 4, 70 AD after crushing a Jewish [[Revolution|revolt]] against their [[Colonialism|colonial]] rule.<ref> * {{cite book |title=Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period: Belief and Practice from the Exile to Yavneh |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203461013/judaic-religion-second-temple-period-lester-grabbe |last=Grabbe |first=Lester L. |edition=1 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780203461013 |doi=10.4324/9780203461013 |location=London |year=2000 |access-date=December 16, 2024 |quote=eBook Published: 1 November 2002}} * {{cite book |title=The Blackwell Companion to Judaism |chapter=Second Temple Judaism |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470758014#page=72 |last1=Neusner |first1=Jacob |last2=Avery-Peck |first2=Alan J. |isbn=9781577180586 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing Ltd |doi=10.1002/9780470758014 |date=January 1, 2003 |access-date=December 16, 2024}} * {{cite book |title=The History of the Second Temple Period |url=https://www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/5214455 |last=Sacchi |first=Paolo |publisher=T&T Clark |year=2004 |access-date=December 16, 2024}} * {{cite book |title=A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period |url=https://www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/5201087 |last=Grabbe |first=Lester L. |publisher=T&T Clark |year=2006 |access-date=December 16, 2024}} * {{cite book |title=Judaism of the Second Temple Period: Sages and Literature v. 2: The Jewish Sages and Their Literature |url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780802824585/Judaism-Second-Temple-Period-Sages-0802824587/plp |last=F