Download or read book The Temple of Jerusalem written by Simon Goldhill and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. Goldhill travels across cultural and temporal boundaries to convey the full extent of the Temple's impact on religious, artistic, and scholarly imaginations.