The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

plots.*^ Besides this theatre, Herod also built an
immense amphitheatre, which we must locate
somewhere in the north-west, and outside the
second city wall.*
All this was Jerusalem above ground. But there
was an under-> Gomp. here generally Uhruh, D.
alte JeroBalem.
groand Jemsalem also, which borrowed
everywhere under the city— CHAP, under the
Upper City, under the Temple, beyond the city
walls. Its I extent may be gathered firom the
circumstance that, after the capture ^"^ '"* of the
city, besides the living who had sought shelter
there, no fewer than 2,000 dead bodies were found
in those subterranean streets.
Close by the tracks of heathenism in Jerusalem,
and in sharp contrast, was what gave to Jerusalem
its intensely Jewish character. It was not only the
Temple, nor the festive pilgrims to its feasts and
services. But there were hundreds of Synagogues,'