Recovering The Temple Mount The Politics of Place, Memory and Identity

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Baram, Uzi

Keywords

Israel, Jerusalem, Temple Mount, Judaism, Bible, Archaeology, Zionism, Poetry, Place, Memory, Identity

Area of Concentration

Anthropology

Abstract

The Temple Mount/Haram es-Sharif has been a center of religious worship and political turmoil for millennia. It is the site of an important Islamic shrine and mosque, and the Western Wall�the holiest site in Judaism. Jewish tradition marks it as the site of Solomon�s Temple, Herod�s Temple, and the Third Temple of the Messianic Age. The following explores the Temple Mount through Jewish literature and Israeli archaeology to understand why, in recent years, the site has drawn national and global attention. The survey is framed in the context of social memory and identity to understand the role the Temple Mount plays in the lives of individuals and groups who hold that site to be important. The study is part of a growing body of literature focusing on place, memory, and identity, and scholarly treatment of the Temple Mount in particular. As violence at the site and in the region continues, the need for scholarly understandings of these issues grows.

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