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For Porphyry, in Commentarii in Oracula Chaldaica, as quoted in Lydus, De Mensibus, in Menahem Stern, trans., Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, vol. 2 (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1980), p. 433. For Iamblichus, quoted in Lydus, De Mensibus, in Stern, p. 485.

Julian, To the High-Priest Theodorus.

Julian, To the Community of the Jews; see also a brief fragment in which Julian refers to rebuilding “the temple of the Most High God” (Works, pp. 301–302).

Julian, To the High-Priest Theodorus. See also Julian’s Fragment of a Letter to a Priest; some believe these were originally parts of the same letter.

Julian, To the High-Priest Theodorus, Works, vol. 3, pp. 55–61.

This view is taken by Michael Avi-Yonah (The Jews Under Roman and Byzantine Rule: A Political History from the Bar Kokhba War to the Arab Conquest [Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1984], p. 190).

Mazar, Mountain of the Lord, p. 94.

The Hebrew inscription reads: adk µtwmx[w µkbl w µtyarw. Benjamin Mazar points out that the words “shall flourish” are omitted in the western wall inscription (Mountain of the Lord [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975], p. 23).

Ephraem of Syria, Hymni contra Julianum 1.16 and 2.7.