And in digging the staircase.įrankie: Up on the Temple Mount. But for those who haven't heard that interview, what is the Temple Mount Sifting Project? And how do you get ancient floors, like what is that about? Tell us all about that.įrankie: In the mid-1990s the Muslims were digging a new staircase to go down into a mosque area that they had developed. Nehemia: I did a previous interview with Zachi Dvira, talking about the Temple Mount Sifting Project, and people should go back and listen to that in the archives. And this is materials that we're actually finding among the debris from the Temple Mount. Josephus says that the material was brought from lots of different foreign countries. And those are the floors, a lot of those floors that you work with, right?įrankie: These are the floors that I'm working with. And he mentioned how there were these open spaces, and the floors were paved. Josephus describes the Temple and the Temple Mount enclosure, where people would come from all over the world. And the reason I was interested in this is, there's this reference in Josephus that we were talking about. Nehemia: Yeah, so we're here at the Temple Mount Sifting Project where she works, and she's been showing me these different floors. She's reconstructed, or is working on reconstructing, floors from a bunch of sites in Israel, mostly from the Herodian period, but also from the Crusader period. And if you have an ancient floor, she's the one you come to. She made Aliya to Israel in 2007 from the United States. I am here with the ancient floor lady, who I will be interviewing today for Hebrew Voices.
Thank you for supporting Nehemia Gordon's Makor Hebrew Foundation. You are listening to Hebrew Voices with Nehemia Gordon. Hebrew Voices #23 - The Temple Floor Lady I look forward to reading your comments! Made up of diverse colors and shapes, coming from far off lands with different backgrounds and ideas, the nations flowing unto Jerusalem will prophetically fit together into Yehovah's plan of salvation for mankind! As I was speaking to Frankie I realized the floor tiling of the "House of Prayer for All Nations" was a picture of God's people. Unlike a Mosaic, which makes use of uniform cubes, the "opus sectile" floors of the Temple were made up of light and dark stones from all over the ancient world, cut into diverse shapes and sizes, and fit together into a grand puzzle to form intricate patterns. I got excited when she showed me, and let me touch, the ancient paving stones that covered the surface of the Jerusalem Temple in the 1st century CE. Frankie explains how she pieces together the pieces of floor discovered in the archaeological excavations. Frankie works at the Temple Mount Sifting Project in Jerusalem, reconstructing ancient floors. In this episode of Hebrew Voices, The Temple Floor Lady, I meet with The Temple Floor Lady, Frankie Snyder.
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