By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from ... their independent existence under Roman law. The temple in Jerusalem Although each Jewish community worshipped at its own ...

Josephus, for example, this historian we have is from a Jerusalem ... of the temple.... Nonetheless, it's clear among all the numerous groups within the Jewish community of the 1st century ...

Archaeologists excavating beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem s Old City have uncovered evidence of an ...