In 1981, Zvi Koenigsberg embarked on an archaelogical, historical, and religious journey that inexorably changed his life. Today, 20 years into that journey, it's impossible to say where that journey will end, but what Koenigsberg has discovered so far is at the heart of his remarkable new book, The Lost Temple of Israel. And the implications of his theories for our post-September 11th world are are worth examining.

On the basis of archaeological and Biblical evidence, Koenigsberg challenges widely accepted religious and scientific doctrines. Jerusalem, he insists, is not the site of the First Temple of Israel. The first temple of Israel was at Mt. Ebal, built some 200 years before the Jerusalem temple of Solomon.