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Best Model of Herod’s Temple Ever Built?
Picture: GEOFF ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHY
The UK Telegraph recently posted a story about a retired farmer who has spent more than 30 years building an enormous scale model of Herod’s temple – and it is still not finished! It is an amazingly detailed model and is considered by some scholars to be the best such model in the world.
Read more about it at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4837528/A-model-of-biblical-proportions-man-spends-30-years-creating-a-model-of-Herods-Temple.html
Also, check out Bryce Haymond’s synopsis at: http://www.templestudy.com/2009/02/26/man-builds-massive-model-herods-temple/
For an in-depth article, see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1155962/Pensioner-spends-30-years-building-amazing-model-Herods-Temple—admits-wont-finish-it.html
(accessed through: www.grandpaenoch.blogspot.com)