December at Herod’s Jerusalem

I have been working, for almost 3 weeks now, on trying to finish off my model of Herod’s Temple. This thing is huge and complex. It is also VERY frustrating.

This frustration comes primarily from the fact that there is enough information about what the temple looked like that you can get things wrong, but not enough information that you can get it all right. You can’t just willy-nilly imagine what things looked like, but you also can’t just follow pictures and get it exactly right either.

I have printed out a bunch of images so that I can identify some of the many errors I have in this model, so I figured I would share these images with you. Keep in mind, this is very much a work in progress. It’s come a long way in three weeks, but it is by no means finished.