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  "title": "Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Melachim",
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    "en": "Maimonides' 12th-century legal code; *Hilchot Melachim* 11:1 sets out the principal Maimonidean position on the messianic age and the rebuilding of the Temple. The standard classical Jewish-legal reference for the Third Temple expectation the corpus engages around the embassy's identification with the Third Temple."
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  "publish_date": "1180",
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