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I locate the Temple about 300 feet north of the Dome of the Rock. See “Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood,” BAR 09:02. For those who would place the Temple on the site of the Dome of the Rock, add about 220 feet to this distance.
“Kathleen Kenyon 1906–1978,” BAR 04:04.
See Raphael Levy, “First ‘Dead Sea Scroll’ Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.
Hamrick found evidence in the Kenyon excavation that the Barrier Wall was dismantled soon after it was built: The stones were robbed, and in the fill known to archaeologists as a robber trench, the archaeologists found first-century A.D. pottery. Therefore the stones of the wall had been robbed by the first century.
