ABSTRACT
Several sources discuss the ‘Temples’ of the single God: the texts of Tanakh give details of the main sites of worship – the mobile Tabernacle in the wilderness, Solomon’s Temple and Ezekiel’s visionary description of an idealized Temple of the future. The Mishnah and Josephus provide details of the Temple during the Second Temple period, while the Dead Sea document known as ‘The Temple Scroll’ illustrates the heightened purity rules that governed the worship and practices of the Qumran community.
