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Baron Edmond Rothschild and the Third Temple

Did you know that a prophecy-minded Jewish philanthropist apparently tried to build the Third Temple over 100 years ago?

Topics: Third Temple
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by Tsvi Sadan
A rather obscure news item that has recently resurfaced on the Internet provides opportunity to address the matter of Baron Edmond de Rothschild and his efforts to build the Third Temple. The news item relates to an extremely rare book published in 1889, The Temple of Jerusalem and the House of the Forest of Lebanon. The book is the painstaking work of two French scholars, Charles Chipiez and Georges Perrot. Chipiez was an influential French architect as well as Egyptologist and Iranologist, among other things. Perrot was an archeologist who also taught at the Sorbonne. Together, the two produced a comprehensive book…

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