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This paper investigates the facts `on the ground’. Was any town wall of the Persian period ever excavated? How large was Nehemiah’s Jerusalem and how did it function within the Persian empire? Was it a walled town with a central temple, the seat of the governor, a centre of administration, religion and economy?
In short, the tower and wall were built at just the time when the Bible tells us that Nehemiah rebuilt the city walls of Jerusalem—around 445 B.C.E. We can identify this tower and the walls that extend from it both north and south as part of Nehemiah’s rebuilding of ancient Jerusalem’s city wall.
26 Μαρ 2024 · At the top of the eastern ridge of the City of David, Nehemiah and the returned exiles built a new city wall. Although they simply repaired the pre-existing walls elsewhere in the city, the wall just above the steep Kidron Valley was too damaged and too difficult to mend.
When Nehemiah heard that the walls of Jerusalem were still broken down more than a half-century after the completion of the rebuilding of the temple, he “sat down and wept,” fasting and praying before God (Neh. 1:4). Implicitly, he was formulating a plan to remedy the situation in Jerusalem.
The City Walls of Biblical Jerusalem The starting point for the study of the borders and walls of Jerusalem in the First Temple Period—and then in the Persian period—is the reconstruction of the borders and walls of Jerusalem in the second millennium b.c.E.
20 Μαρ 2023 · For instance the Broad Wall (Nehemiah 3:8) was built by Hezekiah (king) but some maps show that wall at right angles to the existing walls (& encircling the newer, western part of the city), whilst some show it as part of the main walls themselves.
4 Απρ 2022 · According to the Book of Nehemiah, the walls of Jerusalem lay in ruins until the fifth century B.C.E., when Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem as the provincial governor and completed the repairs of the walls that had begun under Ezra.
