To: SmithL
Wait a second. Is it a burial cave from the Second Temple period? For it does not appear to be on the temple grounds, but in, or near, Beit Shemesh, i.e. in some other place.
4 posted on
01/30/2006 8:18:56 AM PST by
GSlob
To: SunkenCiv
Not a lot of info, but I thought you may want to archive this for the GGG...
5 posted on
01/31/2006 3:23:16 AM PST by
Pharmboy
(The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
To: GSlob
Wait a second. Is it a burial cave from the Second Temple period? For it does not appear to be on the temple grounds, but in, or near, Beit Shemesh, i.e. in some other place. Yep. Second Temple period, -- certainly not on the temple grounds, that would defile the temple.
The dead are 'unclean', so Jews always buried their dead outside the city.
14 posted on
01/31/2006 12:53:00 PM PST by
dread78645
(Intelligent Design. It causes people to misspeak)
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