How the Wealthy Lived in Herodian Jerusalem

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Since it opened last spring at the Israel Museum, the exhibition of finds from the Jewish Quarter excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem has been drawing large and enthusiastic crowds. And well it should. On display are the exciting results of six years of digging in an area only a few hundred yards from the great Temple Enclosure. Collected by curator Yael Israeli, the objects in the exhibition date from the Herodian period,a when the area excavated comprised a fashionable and wealthy residential section overlooking the Holy Temple. The choice finds, on public display for the first time, […]

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Footnotes

Herod the Great began his reign in 37 B.C. and died in 4 B.C., but the period which bears his name is usually considered to extend to 70 A.D. when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple. The Herodian period thus includes the Jerusalem of Jesus’ time.

The Mishnah is an early Jewish law book. Mishneh, involving the same root, is used in the Bible to denote a section of Jerusalem.—Ed.