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Show " 1331 ipn jj Saturday, October 14, 1935 The Daiiy Herald Academy part of local culture, religious past By SHEILA SANCHEZ The Daily Herald I promised a column on the feasibility of restoring Academy Square. This may not qualify as an issue for the religion page unless you accept the argument I developed last week- that the Square simply involves too much of the cultural and religiousspiritual heritage of our community for us to permit its destruction. Whether Mormon or not. our sense of who we are ties to our sense of the past. If you believe, as do. that such an important part of our past designated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as the d most significant cluster of Misof the west buildings should never by sissippi destroyed, then the feasibility problem becomes a matter of will and money. If we have the will, we'll get the money. In a sense, the Academy itself was never feasible. During its first 40 years, it faced constant money unre-store- Www As a Brigham Young Universi- professor of ancient scripture in Jerusalem. Dr. Richard Draper was frustrated when his students couldn't visualize ancient sites such as the Second Temple. Draper said the historic structure often appeared as a confusing pile of rubble that left students with more questions than answers. "!t became apparent to me that we needed to create some kind of visualization so the student could have in his or her mind an idea of what these structures looked like, and their significance." Draper said this week in an interview w ith The Daily Herald. Draper and BYU graduate student Andrew Teasdale have creatd ed a computer-animatevideo of the historical religious site built bv Herod. King of Judea(37 B.C. to 4 B.C.) It's the ty first-eve- r : U VH- - ill Wx V I ' computer-animate- d model and tour of the Second Temple. The model was designed Studio software prowith the gram. "We want to allow the viewer to see what the old Temple platform looked like during the time of Jesus," Teasdale said. "We can gain a better understanding of many events of the Savior's life. We want to show that this is where he walked, that this is where he taught." Teasdale. who studied at the BYU Jerusalem Center and is working on a master's thesis on the Temple under Draper's supervision, believes computer animation can help the scriptures come alive and help students better understand their significance. THE SECOND TEMPLE Located on the Temple Mount, now known as the Haram in Jerusalem, the historical platform is more than 72.000 square yards, making it the largest site of its kind in the ancient world. By comparison. Temple Square in Salt Lake City is only 48,400 square yards. The rebuilding of the Temple and its surrounding courts was Herod's greatest building accomplishment. The Temple itself was on hallowed ground and only Levitical priests were allowed to enter it. Work began in 20 BC. The Temple itself was completed in 18 months but the building and decoration of the outer courts continued for many years. The retaining walls towered more than 80 feet above the roadways going around its perimeter and reached more than 50 feet below street level in their foundation courses. The stones to build the walls were gigantic. On the Wall (the "Wailing Western Wall" in Jewish tradition) the largest stone is about 40 feet long; an even larger one in the south wall weighs more than 100 tons. The Gospel of John (2:20) indicates that the project took 46 years, well beyond Herod's lifetime. Josephus. a Jewish historian (born in A.D. 37). indicates the final embellishments and repairs on components finished earlier in the project took place virtually to the time of the Great Revolt, when the Roman general Titus and the 10th Legion Fietensis destroyed the maenifi- 3-- D Maiden J. Clark Matter Unorganized problems and crises. But the people of Prove willed both Academy and Square into being, willed with purse and back, money and labor. They built well. And they willed it to continue and to grow, always with the pressure of students wanting to enter; until the Academy became the University. Feasibility now is primarily matter of structural soundness. a 1 have talked at length with I. Dale Despain. retired city planner, who, along with engineers and architects, has explored deeply into the condition of the buildings. Dale assures me that the basic buildings are sound. Yes. they hae suffered from weather and vandals. Yes. they are now an eyesore. Yes. much of the interiors will need rebuilding But the buildings are structurally sound. Careful inspection, even digging with a backhoe to the base of the footings, revealed not a single crack. Footings and foundations are sound, exterior walls are sound, even many interior walls are sound enough to be covered inexpensive!;, with sheet rock. One for use become to use of the earliest proposals of the buildings has again a very meaningful option: the Academy Education Building for a new and expanded city library. Already our new library is inadequate, and will become more so. hard to think of a more appropriate use for Academy Square than as a cultural center, with the library as its heart and a restored College Hall for lectures, community drama, music, and all the other arts that we cherish. I find it We ow e another part of our heritage to Academy Square: the bottom level of the Academy Building w as the site of much of the early deelopment of tcleviion. Cer-lainl- first-centu- v But TV has. for belter and worse, transformed our world. In the physics lab there. Philo T. Farnswoith developed much of the dream and technology that became TV. This fact in itself gives the restoration project a worldwide significance. Daily Herald PhotoMatthew cent holy compound in the year ' 70 A.D. Some of the most significant events in the Old and New Testaments are believed to have occurred at the site. Biblical scholars believe that Abraham, the father of the Covenant People, could have offered his son, Isaac, in sacrifice at the site. New Testament Notable events include Jesus' visit to the temple when he was 12 years old to learn from and teach the teachers (Luke 2:46). Jesus' temptation by the devil (Mathew 4:5-7- ), Jesus' cleansing of the temple by casting out the money changers and many of (John 2:13-22- ) Jesus' teachings in the temple courts. In Luke 2:21-3the virgin the visited Temple with the Mary infant Jesus to be purified according to Jewish law, and Simeon and the prophetess Ana proclaimed him to be the Messiah. In Acts 3:1-1- 1 Apostles Peter and John heal the lame man at the site. It was also the place where Paul was almost killed by Jews who accused him of bringing a gentile into a forbidden area of the Temple courts. THE COMPUTER ANIMATION The recreation was based on Draper and Teasdale's research of archaeological materials on the Temple Mount, the writings of Joseplus and The Mishnah. a compilation of oral Jewish laws made at the close of the second century A.D. Draper and Teasdale created a computer al model of the entire temple platform. Then they added texture and lighting from a variety of sources. Teasdale created a camera path and rendered each video frame individually. The computer took between a couple of minutes to more than three hours to create each image. After "that, the images were transferred to a laser disk and then used to produce a video tape. When the images are played at 30 R. Smith Above, Brigham Young University graduate student Andrew Teasdale and Professor Richard Draper, who teaches ancient scripture, have created a computer-animate- d video of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The temple was the site of some of the most significant events in the New Testament. The historical religious site was built by Herod, King of Judea (37 B.C. to 4 B.C.). The photo at right shows a double tunnel that displays some of the intricate stonework of the domes in the temple. The computer recreation of the Second Temple is the first in a project that is set to include a of the LDS temple in Nauvoo. iiiii frames per second, it gives the illusion of movement. d The tour takes viewers on a "ride" through the Tyropoean Valley, up the south side of the Temple, through the voice-narrate- "We have v r nmi wrin Photo courtesy of Richard Draper the temple doors. In addi- Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil: then to the south wall and up a double tunnel. Once inside the tunnel, the camera shows intricate stone work of the domes located inside the passageway. front of tion, there were golden grape clusters as big as a man. Lyon drew a grape vine pattern used as the texture for the columns. He also designed the curtain believed to have been situated in front of the temple doors. Using colors mentioned in the Mishnah. the curtain features a pattern of star-lik- e images common to the Hellenistic period. Lyon also helped Draper and Teasdale create the Temple's veil. The veil separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. The veil's design depicts a stylized tree flanked by a cherub on each side. Inside the Holy Place, Draper and Teasdale constructed the d Menorah. the candelabra to light the inlerior of the Temple. The Menorah's design is based on the description found in the Mishnah and the representation on the Arch of Titus in Rome. "We are the first to say that this is not a 100 percent correct been as true as we can be to the archeological remains and the primary literature." Richard Draper, Hulda Gates, and on to the temple platform. The narration briefly gives information concerning the history and significance of each building or area. Viewers sec an overview of the entire temple platform begincorner. In ning at the south-wethe northwest corner, they see the Anlonia Fortress, a place where Roman guards were stationed and possibly the place where Jesus Christ w as interrogated before his crucifixion. Then viewers are taken to the pinnacle of the Temple, w here the st Professor of Ancient scripture BYU The camera also takes viewers through the Basilica at the south of the piatform and then across the Court of the Gentiles, into the Women's Court, the Men's Court and up stairs into the Temple itself. Inside the Temple, viewers see the Holy Place and The Holy of Holies. With the help of Provo artist Michael Lyon. Draper and Teas-dal- e have recreated what they believe is the proper entrance to the Temple. According to ancient sources, there were golden grape vines woen around the pillars in seven-branche- representation of the Temple. This is our best guess," Teasdale said. a mixed blessing. walk into our restored county building or our restored tabernacle and thrill with the beauty of both. For me the Academy Building has never h id the supreme beauty of these. But it has its own kind of beauty, a beauty that will grow as the original beauty is restored and that will grow on people as it again becomes part of the life of our cily. I We need lo see that beauty it again. We must not let die. (I apologize for giving the wrong box number for Brighain Young Academy Foundation. The correct number to send pledges or to get informanot money tion is P.O. Box 76. Provo UT 84603.) Mardeu J. Clark is a retire,! professor of English front HYU. Being born again requires change in life, perspective By JOHN CONLON What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul (Mark 8:16)'.' The marks of Christianity which we have examined over the past few weeks have included relationship, people of the Word and monotheism. The third mark of a Christian is holiness. The apostle Paul wrote the book of Lphesians exclusively to guide Christians. In Lphesians 5:1 believers are told to be imitators of God. To imitate God means that Christians are lo copy l he attributes, characteristics, altitudes and habits of God and a'dpt these characteristics as their ovfji. these We find a description characteristics only in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. If the characteristics which we attempt to live out in our lives do error. A god who allows evil or inconsistency is no god. A god who with sin is no allows compromise god. The god who accepts John Coition jtL "Soul" Food and are copying the habits of a false god. God does not practice si mat ion ethics. His standards, which were in effect in the year 33 A.D. are the same as his standards in 1995. What God determined to be politically correct in IS23 are exactly the priorities and requirements of 1995. Therefore, it a church has changed any of the principles of Christianity since A.D. 33 there not measure up to the holy stanMean only be one rcavon! That dards of God, which are found in' has moved from truth into thnrch the Bible, then wc are deceived by an anti-Chri- Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever" (I John 2:15-17). stan- dards in the church or the home that lower the standards of holiness, purity, morality and spirituality is no god. The only true God is a holy God who demands a heart of holiness in all who call upon His name. There is no oilier God. All who worship a god whose character is less than holy are deceived by the antichrist and do not know the Christian God. The forms of religion are things of the world. It is written that Christians must "not love the world oi anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everythe cravings thing in the world of sinful man. the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has comes not from the and does As il is written in John .VIS every human being is born with a sinful nature and "whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son." Jesus told Nicode-muthat unless he were born again he could have no part of the kingdom of (iod. Paul warns thai "All (humans) have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). He continues his warning in Romans 6:23 by saying that "the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord." Being born again doesn't mean just having a family or cultural tradition of confirmation or some other agreement that there is a s God. "even the demons believe that and shudder" (James 2:19). Being born again is an internal incarnation of God's Holy Spirit bringing a new life, a new dimension of life, and a new perspective on life. If one has not experienced such a change, then that person has not experienced God. The new life means a change of attitude, a change of motivation. a change of priorities, and a change of expectations in life. "We love because he first loved us. If anyone says. T love God.' yet hates his biother, he is a l or anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command; Who ever loves God must also love his brother" (I John 4: Kevcrcnd Jnlm Conlon is pasld' of the New beginnings Fellowship Church ofThcNa zarene in Provo |