
It is also an inevitable part of religious education and general education in all schools. It had an impact on many branches of contemporary art. The story of David and Goliath is one of the most famous biblical stories. This idea will later become one of the central motives of Christian and Jewish cosmology. In addition, the seventh chapter reveals the oldest explicitly expressed faith in God, who is the absolute Creator and who creates the world out of nothing. Apart from the story of martyrdom, the seventh chapter hides one of the oldest, and certainly one of the most vivid descriptions of the early faith in the resurrection from the dead. However, the story of the mother and brothers remained preserved in Talmud in a certain form. The Synagogue rejected this book in its entirety, although it contains the oldest recorded testimony about the celebration of Hanukkah, one of the most important Jewish holidays today. Its canonical status has become the subject of debate in the last few centuries, both among the Orthodox and other Christians. The story about them is to be found in the seventh chapter of the Second Book of Maccabees. The cult of the Macca-bean martyrs began to develop very early, so that in the fourth century at the latest, they were celebrated among the Christians. The narrative of the martyrdom of a mother and seven brothers has had an enormous impact on the history of both Church and Synagogue. Why was another temple built just a few tens of minutes walk from the First Temple in Jerusalem? Who built it? What was its role? Does the biblical writer ever mention such a striking building? These are just some of the questions, which will certainly be further extended, when the archaeologists continue with the excavations in Tel Moza, and when they bring us some new discoveries. This contribution attempts to offer an overview of archaeological discoveries from Tel Moza and to set up and analyze the problem from the perspective of the biblical text. An even greater surprise was the discovery that this building was of the same shape as Solomon’s Temple, and most probably, it was built at a similar time. They concluded that this building had a function of a temple during the time of ancient Israel. The Secret of Judahite Temple at Tel MozaĪ short overview of excavations in Tel Moza and analysis of findings from the biblical perspectiveĭue to the construction of a section of the highway from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, the archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority unearthed in the summer of 2012 an imposing building at Tel Moa, just seven kilometers away from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
