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See The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, ed. Ephraim Stern (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and Carta; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), pp. 503–504, for illustrations of the tenth-century B.C.E. gate at Gezer.

See Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer 31.29; Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sepher Ha>Avodah, Hilkhoth Bet-Ha-Behirah 2, 2; and Nachmanides on Genesis 22:2. Cf. also Isaac Kalimi, “The land of Moriah, Mount Moriah, and the Site of Solomon’s Temple in Biblical Historiography,” Harvard Theological Review 83 (1990), pp. 345–362.

Although Ruth goes down to the threshing floor for a rendezvous with Boaz (Ruth 3:3, 6), David goes up to Araunah’s threshing floor (2 Samuel 24:19).

See Volkmar Fritz, “Temple Architecture: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About Solomon’s Temple?” BAR 13:04.

See Brevard S. Childs, The Book of Exodus. A Critical, Theological Commentary, The Old Testament Library (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1974), pp. 530–532.

Bultmann, Jesus (Tubingen: Mohr, 1926), p. 146.

See, for example, Rudolph Bultmann, Die Geschichte der synoptischen Tradition, 3rd ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1957), pp. 233–241

For the idea of the “messianic banquet,” see Isaiah 25:6 55:1–2, etc. In 2 Baruch 29:8, it is said that the “manna will come down again from on high” in the messianic age. Here, in a text from the beginning of the second century C.E., there is a reference to the feeding of the people in the wilderness.