“…the building of the Second Temple involved leveling a new site… I mean, as far as I can see, the Zachariah prophesies about the mountain becoming a plain and building all that sort of thing, they are implying that a new mountaintop site is to be used for the rebuilt temple. That suggests to me that the site of the first temple was not the site of the second temple.” --Margaret Barker
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[...] Margaret Barker Interview – Part 7a (Location of the Temple) Margaret Barker Interview – Part 7a (Location of the Temple) [...]
[...] and the temple, Part 5 on social implications of the temple, Part 6 on seeing the face of God, Part 7a on the location of the temple and Part 7b on the temple in the modern world) I sometimes worry [...]
[...] listen to Barker give a brief overview of her thoughts during her interview with Dr. Bill Hamblin (Margaret Barker Interview – Part 7a–Location of the Temple). Also, she outlines these views in her recent book, The Hidden Tradition of the Kingdom of [...]