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...ground falls off sharply, dotted with stands of pine and, yes, silvery green olive trees. Jesus--or his donkey--would have picked his way from here down into the Kidron Valley. On the other side, then as now, a great tan wall--the grandiose platform for a place of worship--would have reared up before him. He would have passed through what was known as the Beautiful Gate and entered Jerusalem...
...gardens. He added an amphitheater and a hippodrome. But the jewel in the crown, the spiritual, economic and social center of Judea and an icon to Jews throughout the region, was the Temple. It was his bid to rival Solomon, biblical builder of the Jews' first great house of worship, which had been razed by the Babylonians some 570 years earlier...
...Temple worship revolved around sacrifice: a lamb for Passover, a bull for Yom Kippur, two doves--"the poor woman's sacrifice"--to celebrate a child's birth. Before buying an animal, visitors changed their Roman denarii (the dollar of the day) for shekels, or Temple coins, that had no portraits on them and so did not violate the Jewish prohibition of graven images. Herod appears to have allowed the money changers onto the Temple platform, which may have spurred Jesus' scourging of them in "my father's house." Joshua Schwartz, a professor of historical geography at Israel's Bar Ilan...
TREND Houses of worship opening franchise restaurants and other businesses on church grounds...
Family Christian is just one of several churches around the country that are starting businesses in an effort to make houses of worship more inviting. In Wells, Maine, the Messiah Christian Church has opened a fitness center, with memberships selling for $300 a year. And Houston's Brentwood Baptist Church will open a McDonald's in July, part of a new lifelong-learning center located next to the church. The burger joint, complete with a drive-through window, will be jointly owned by the church and one of its members. It will be managed by the church...