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I am indebted to Prof. Dan Barag for bringing this coin to my attention. See also: Barag, “The Table for Shewbread and the Facade of the Temple on the Bar-Kokhba Coins,” Qadmoniot 20 (1987), pp. 22–25.

Babylonian Talmud Baba Batra 4a.

Braitha in Babylonian Talmud Sukkah 51b.

Many scholars, such as Emil Schürer, Kurt Watzinger, Abraham Schalit, Michael Avi-Yonah and others, find the Middot descriptions of the Temple preferrable to that provided by Josephus.

See The Koran, especially Sura XIX, but also Suras III, XXI, CIX, CXIV.

The genealogies of Matthew and Luke are not the same, raising the question whether, and to what extent, either is accurate.

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1945).

Beekman, “Lexical Equivalence,” pp. 88–89.