By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from ... were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance. There had been upsets: Jews had been ...
This exceptional structure, dating to the First ... century BCE, possibly as part of King Hezekiah’s religious reform. According to the Bible, Hezekiah sought to centralize worship at the Temple ...
The study suggests the structure, which is in overall exceptional shape, dates to the First Temple period and was ... been sealed with fill from the 8th century BCE (Before the Common Era ...