Are the dimensions of king Solomons Temple known ?
In his book “The Jewish War”, Flavius Josephus gives a cubit by cubit description. After having been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, Zerubbabel rebuilt it about 539 B. C., and it was transformed, 20 years before the birth of Christ, by the king Herodes senior. This Second Temple is meticulously described, cubit to cubit, by Jewish sources: «The Jewish War» by Flavius Josephus and the Mishnah «Measures Book». Its inner measures coincide with the ones of the First Temple. The Inner Sanctuary was shaped like an inverted “T” with of 100 x 100 cubits arms, whereas the outer measures were of 300 x 135 cubits, with a height of 40 cubit at two levels. It was divided into courts: the upper one square, only priests were allowed in it; an intermediate fringe for the Israelites, and the external atrium, with four 40 x 40 cubits square courts for the sacrifice tools, traditionally named Kitchen Courts. All of it surrounded by six towers, four at the corners and two in the middle of the northern and so
