Bible Review

This was one of the most popular legends in the Middle Ages. A tree from Paradise found its way into the hands of Solomon, who honored it until he was told that from it would hang a man who would destroy the kingdom. He hid it at the bottom of a pool, which had dried out at the time of Jesus’ execution. See A. Wilmart, “La légende du bois de la croix,” Revue Biblique 36 (1927), pp. 226–236; and Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrimage, p. 75.

Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrimage, p. 278, cf. p. 301.

Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrimage, p. 288.

Wilkinson, with Joyce Hill and W.F. Ryan, Jerusalem Pilgrimage, 1099–1185 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1988), pp. 300–301.

Vincent and Abel, Jérusalem nouvelle, p. 610.

John Wilkinson, Egeria’s Travels to the Holy Land, rev. ed. (Jerusalem: Ariel, 1981), pp. 75, 134–136.

See the excavation report, Vincent, “L’église de l’Léona,” Revue Biblique 8 (1911), pp. 219–265; and his subsequent observations in “Lléona: Sanctuaire primitif de l’Ascension,” Revue Biblique 64 (1957), pp. 48–71.

See in particular John Baldovin, The Urban Character of Christian Worship: The Origins, Development, and Meaning of Stational Liturgy (Rome: Gregorian, 1987), pp. 45–104.

See my “Pre-Constantinian Christian Jerusalem,” in The Christian Heritage in the Holy Land, ed. A. O’Mahony, G. Gunner and K. Hintlian (London: Scorpion Cavendish, 1995), pp. 13–21.

Ichnographiae Monumentorum Terrae Sanctae (1724–1744), 2nd. ed. of the Latin text with English version by Hoade, and preface and notes by Bagatti (Jerusalem: Franciscan Press, 1962), pp. 142–143.