Biblical Archaeology Review

See “Has Jerusalem’s Millo Been Found?” BAR 08:04, and “New York Times Misrepresents Major Jerusalem Discovery,” BAR 07:04.

Kol Ha’ir, October 29, 1982, p. 21.

New York: Doubleday.

Meir Ben-Dov, In the Shadow of the Temple (New York: Harper & Row, 1985) 381 pp., $24.95.

“Ashkenazi” designates the community of Jews that descends from Jews dispersed in Russia and eastern Europe.

“Sephardi” designates the community of Jews that traces its ancestors to Spain, southern Europe and North Africa.

Both Majorana syriaca [L.] Rafin. and Origanum syriacum [L.] Sieb. are scientific names used in botanical guides to designate the hyssop plant. The two Latin words indicate, first, the genus and second, the particular species to which this plant belongs. [L.] stands for Linnaeus, the great 18th century Swedish botanist who named many thousands of plants and created the nomenclature system used today. Rafin. and Sieb. are abbreviations for Rafinesque and Siebold, botanists who amended the classifications.

“Sycomore” is not a misspelling of sycamore. The sycomore (Ficus sycomorus L.) is a totally distinct family and genus from both the American plane tree (Platanus occidentalis) and the English maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), both of which are commonly called sycamore. The New English Bible uses the correct spelling, sycomore.

The numbering of chapters and verses in the Hebrew Bible sometimes differs from the numbering in English translations. My citations are to the Hebrew Bible; following in brackets, when they differ from the Hebrew, are the chapter and verse as they appear in the New English Bible.