History | Reconstructing Solomon's Temple

King Solomon’s Temple

The chief rabbi of Hamburg in 1628, Jacob Judah Leon (1602-1675)—known as Leon Templo—with the assistance of the Christian theologian Adam Boreel, built a model of the Temple based on the descriptions in the Hebrew Bible, the writings of Flavius Josephus and rabbinic literature. Leon also wrote a booklet on the subject in Spanish, Retrato del Templo de Selomo.
An earlier illustration of the model is surprisingly different in appearance.

KING SOLOMON’S INDEX

“Rabbi Jacob Jehudah Leon,” J. Chetwoode Crawley, Ars Quatuor Coronati xii, p. 150-58.