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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8059858, member: 128351"]Thank you, this is very interesting. The paper by Donald Ariel is available online <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1219122/Ariel_D_T_Identifying_the_Mints_Minters_and_Meanings_of_the_First_Jewish_Revolt_Coins_In_M_Popovi%C4%87_ed_The_Jewish_Revolt_against_Rome_Interdisciplinary_Perspectives_Supplements_to_the_Journal_for_the_Study_of_Judaism_154_Leiden_Brill_2011_Pp_373_397" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/1219122/Ariel_D_T_Identifying_the_Mints_Minters_and_Meanings_of_the_First_Jewish_Revolt_Coins_In_M_Popovi%C4%87_ed_The_Jewish_Revolt_against_Rome_Interdisciplinary_Perspectives_Supplements_to_the_Journal_for_the_Study_of_Judaism_154_Leiden_Brill_2011_Pp_373_397" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The Temple Treasury was located in the southern end of the Temple Mount, near or inside (?) the monumental Royal Stoa. This treasury was called the "Korbanas" (Josephus, War of the Jews 2:9.4; Matthew 27:6). Mark, Luke and John call it "gazophylakion". It was in the sector of the Temple open to all, for women were allowed. It was also in this sector that Jesus Christ was teaching when in Jerusalem: "These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come." John 8:20. From where he was seated his students and himself could see people casting money into the Treasury: "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury (...)" Mark 12:41-43; see also Luke 21:1-4. I think this may have to do with the Royal Stoa. We were in hellenistic times and Jesus taught in the Greek manner, using a sandbox like we use a blackboard to trace symbols or anything relevant: "Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not (...)" John 8:1-6. (same attitude as Archimedes tracing his circles on the ground, concentrating so much on his problem he did not pay attention to the Roman soldier coming to him). His pedagogy was also very Hellenic: there does not seem to have been a program, a lecture prepared in advance like we do, but he just sat and the students (or anybody interested) asked questions, and he gave answers. This is why I suspect he was teaching in the Royal Stoa just next to the Treasury: stoas were used as teaching places, like the Stoa Poikile in Athens where Zeno of Kition used to teach (hence the name of Stoician school). This hellenistic traditional teaching style is still in use in Cairo, at the al-Azhar University:[ATTACH=full]1396931[/ATTACH] The Stoa, the Treasury, all the rest of the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70, in the first place because it was a fortified citadel, and remained deserted 600 years. The southern side of the Temple Mount was reoccupied by the Muslims who built there the first al-Aqsa Mosque in the 8th c. In the 12th c. it became the headquarters of the Knights Templars (who reserved a place for Muslim worshipers, as attested by Usama ibn Munqidh who prayed there when he went to Jerusalem to visit his "Templar friends"). The whole sector has been rebuilt since, and is now the al-Aqsa Mosque.[/QUOTE]

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