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Excerpt from Solomon's Temple in the Light of Other Oriental Temples: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate Divinity School, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor in Philosophy It is the purpose of this thesis merely to treat of the art and archi tecture of the temple, and not to describe the play of human life around the sacred shrine, as manifested in its elaborate system of priests and sacrifices, solemn processions, and feasts of joy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.