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The name "Huldah gates" is taken from the description of the Temple Mount in the Mishnah (Tractate of Midot 1:3). [1]Two possible etymologies are given for the name: "Huldah" means "mole" or "mouse" in Hebrew, and the tunnels leading up from these gates called to mind the holes or tunnels used by these animals.
The Huldah Gates comprise two sets of bricked-up gates in the southern wall of the Temple Mount. The fact that the original entrance gateways still exist reflects an ancient promise cited in a work of rabbinic literature, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah: "The Kohen Gate and the Huldah Gate were never destroyed and God will renew them".
Huldah" derives from the Hebrew lemma חלד, meaning to abide or to continue. [3] The Huldah Gates in the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount are named for her. [4] Holyland Model of Jerusalem, to the south of the Temple Mount, a pyramidal building represents the supposed tomb of the prophetess Huldah. However, archaeological excavations have ...
Southern wall of Temple Mount: Sealed Huldah Gates: Sha'arei Chulda שערי חולדה Two gates: The Triple Gate, as it comprises three arches. Also known as Bab an-Nabi (باب النبي, "Gate of the Prophet Muhammad") The Double Gate, two arches, partially hidden from view by mediaeval building; Herodian period: Southern wall of Temple ...
The Double Gate and the Triple Gate are both part of the Huldah Gate in the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There is an opinion that the door is illiterate in the sense of the decorations of the magnificent top of the door , which resemble the decorations of the door of mercy (Umayyad of construction).
The Southern Wall is 922 feet (281 m) in length, and which the historian Josephus equates as being equal to the length of one furlong (Greek: stadion). [1] Herod's southern extension of the Temple Mount is clearly visible from the east, standing on the Mount of Olives or to a visitor standing on top of the Temple mount as a slight change in the plane of the eastern wall, the so-called ...
The Monastery of the Virgins is a structure uncovered during Benjamin Mazar's excavations south of Jerusalem's Temple Mount.The large number of Christian religious finds from the site have prompted its identification with a monastery described by a pilgrim, Theodosius the archdeacon, in his De Situ Terrae Sanctae, a work of the early 6th century. [1]
Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (3 C, 29 P) T. ... Huldah Gates; I. Islamic Museum, Jerusalem; J. Jehoash Inscription; Jerusalem Waqf; M.