A station-by-station handout to the 3D reconstruction: every location with its description, the scripture read there in the King James Version, the primary sources behind it, and a note wherever those sources disagree. Sources: KJV; Josephus, War and Antiquities; the Mishnah (Middot, Tamid, Yoma, Shekalim, Sukkah, Parah); the Babylonian Talmud.
Prepared by Taylor Halverson, Ph.D.
Beta — a work in progress. The reconstruction follows the majority reading of the sources, but dimensions, decoration and the lines of the city walls remain debated; see the notes marked “where the sources differ.”
Prepared by Taylor Halverson, Ph.D., to accompany Herod’s Temple — Jerusalem, c. 30 CE, an explorable three-dimensional reconstruction of the temple as it stood in the time of Christ. Forty-three annotated locations; one hundred sixty-two passages of scripture.
Every description is drawn from the King James New Testament, Josephus’ War and Antiquities, the Mishnah (Middot, Tamid, Yoma, Shekalim, Sukkah, Parah) and the Babylonian Talmud, with the disagreements among them noted rather than smoothed over.
© 2026 Taylor Halverson. All rights reserved. Beta — a work in progress. May be printed for personal study and classroom teaching with attribution retained.