The 'Inner Sanctum' Series was one of the most unique ever created in the early days of OTR.Hyman Brown's producing/directing of the show, that used the Opening Sound Effects of the 'Creaking Door',that was actually in the basemnent to the Network, was a stroke of genius! I recall listening to the Inner Sanctum program about 1949-1950 when I was six years old. It was sponsored by Bromo Seltzer with that great talking train commercial (which added to the goosebumps as it sounded spooky). I didn't realize until recent years that it was broacast at 8. Immediately following the Lone Ranger.
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While the show was not intended for children, it wasn't too smart to schedule it that early knowing that kids were still awake. It should have stayed at the 9 pm. Broadcast time. I'm sure some mothers complained about it, but they wouldn't have sued the producer or some such nonsense as they might have today.
Conducted these experiments were not from the inner sanctum trying to build the Bomb, they reported their findings to them. Joseph Hamilton began to study radiation effects in. Rats in the summer of 1942. In 1943 the first human test subjects would be used without. Their knowledge or consent. All the experiments were conducted for the express. The biblical accounts about Solomon's Temple give a few of its dimensions but not enough for reconstructing the layout.The oldest surviving information about the detailed layout of the entire Jerusalem Temple precinct is relatively late. It was transmitted in a Rabbinic tractate from the end of the second century of our era 1 and may therefore appear, at first sight, to refer to the then.
SiteTemple dimensions Visit our other Sections:Store Stuff:Footnotes:1 The age of this Mishnah tractate is cited from Leen Ritmeyer: 'Locating the Original Temple Mount', Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April 1992, pages 24 to 45 and 64, 65, see note on page 26.2 Robert Graves and Raphael Patai: 'Hebrew Myths - The Book of Genesis', Crown Publishers, New York, 1983, see pages 16 and 196.3 Leen Ritmeyer: 'The Temple and the Rock', Ritmeyer Archaeological Design, Harrogate, England, 1996, page 10.Mount size from Middot 2.1. You are onpage:Temple dimensionsClick on the pictures to enlarge them.
For an even more detailed view, click on the titles above to see their vector versions with the free vector viewer plug-in fromThe biblical accounts about Solomon's Temple give a few of its dimensions but not enough for reconstructing the layout. The oldest surviving information about the detailed layout of the entire Jerusalem Temple precinct is relatively late. It was transmitted in a Rabbinic tractate from the end of the second century of our era 1 and may therefore appear, at first sight, to refer to the then recently destroyed Herodian Temple.However, the Rabbis did not hold Herod in great esteem. Herod was an Edomite, and Edom was a traditional enemy of Israel, so hated that the Rabbis often used the word 'Edom' as a substitute for 'Rome' since it was unsafe to condemn the Roman occupiers openly.Herod also built temples to other gods besides the God of Israel, and he placed an Imperial eagle, a symbol for the Roman emperor's divinity, on the Jerusalem Temple to the God who forbade all worship of others. For these and other reasons, the pious Rabbis surnamed him 'the Wicked' and saw him as nothing but a puppet of the despised overlords 2. They seem to have roundly ignored him and his deeds.Leen Ritmeyer, an archaeologist who spent much time studying the evolution of the ancient Temple Mount, argues that those Rabbis are also more likely to have described the original plan of king Solomon's First Temple because they listed the Temple Mount still as square, long after the Hasmoneans and then again Herodes had enlarged it and made it rectangular 3.I n a series of articles for Biblical Archaeology Review 4, Ritmeyer described how he located the corners of the Temple Mount's original outer wall which the Rabbinic Middot 2.1. Lists as measuring 500 by 500 cubit square.
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Based on the royal cubit of 20.67 inches which he had found used in several tombs near Jerusalem and other structures from Solomon's time, these corners formed a square of almost exactly 500 cubit.According to Ritmeyer, the Temple Mount and its outer walls can be traced back only to just after Hezekiah’s time, and he suggests that these walls may not yet have been built by Solomon but might have been added later.However, it seems hard to imagine that Solomon would have left his precious Temple precinct filled with gold galore yet without strong defensive walls. So shortly after his father’s frequent wars and easy conquest of Jerusalem, he must have worried about protecting his treasury’s gold reserve even more than the keepers of Fort Knox do today in a country far more secure.Moreover, the square precinct appears also to be mentioned in 2 Chronicles 29:3 where we learn about king Hezekiah:“In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the gates of the house of the Lord and repaired them. He brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together in the square on the east side.”The reason for the gathering was to remind his audience to hallow the Temple, so it is likely that he held it near that Temple and pointed to it during his speech.' On the east side' also fits this scenario because that puts the gathering in front of the Temple, the most obvious spot for such a harangue.
The east side of the Temple Mount was the largest area available for such a gathering because the southern half of the Mount was occupied by several royal buildings.All this suggests that the “square” meant the square Temple Mount. If this Mount was originally square, as located by Ritmeyer, then that Rabbinic tradition is more likely than not to describe the building of king Solomon the Wise and not that of Herod the Wicked.The Temple Mount layout derived from that tradition is shown in the at the top left of this scroll which you can click for a larger display. It is based on Ritmeyer's reconstruction from those Rabbinic data and from a 16th century c ommentary by o ne Tosefot Yom Tov who gave the distances from the four sides of the Temple Court to the edges of the surrounding Mount:213 cubit to the east,250 cubit to the south,100 cubit to the west, and115 cubit to the north.This commentary may be late, but the distances it gives match Ritmeyer's discovery of the foundation trenches for the walls of the innermost Sanctum on photographs of the rock exposed under the Dome of the Rock. He also drew attention to a rectangular recess cut in that rock that is of the right size and location for a foundation that may have supported the Ark of the Covenant.The so defined probable location of the Holy of Holies, in turn, is in the proper spot relative to the corners of the Temple Mount when the distances from the Rabbinic source and that late commentary are laid out on the ground. This adds further support to the proposed connection of that source with the original layout.The distances within that Temple Court are, according to Middot 5.1.
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