Biblical Archaeology Review

The Mishnah is the earliest codification of oral Jewish law, compiled in about 200 C.E., and is the basis of the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds.

Maurice and Vivienne Wohl were the benefactors whose gift helped make possible the restoration of the Herodian Quarter and its display within a museum.

An ashlar is a large, finished, rectangular building stone.

Magen Broshi, “Estimating the Population of Ancient Jerusalem,” BAR 04:02.

Dan Cole, “How Water Tunnels Worked,” BAR 06:02.

See Kathleen and Leen Ritmeyer, “Reconstructing Herod’s Temple Mount in Jerusalem,” BAR 15:06; Leen Ritmeyer, “Locating the Original Temple Mount,” BAR 18:02; and Joseph Patrich, “Reconstructing the Magnificent Temple Herod Built,” BR 04:05.

For more on this model, see Rivka Gonen, “Visualizing First Temple Jerusalem,” BAR 15:03.

For earlier BAR articles on the Jerusalem excavations, see Nahman Avigad, “Jerusalem in Flames—The Burnt House Captures a Moment in Time,” BAR 09:06, and “Jerusalem Flourishing—A Craft Center for Stone, Pottery and Glass,” BAR 09:06.

The archaeological work was entrusted to the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Department of Antiquities and Museums (now the Israel Antiquities Authority) of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Israel Exploration Society. Benjamin Mazar was in charge of the Temple Mount excavations, Nahman Avigad worked in the Jewish Quarter and Yigal Shiloh headed the City of David excavations.

C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before the Common Era), used by this author, are the alternate designations corresponding to A.D. and B.C. often used in scholarly literature.