Biblical Archaeology Review

Amihai Mazar, “Iron Age Fortresses in the Judaean Hills,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly, July–December 1982, pp. 87–109.

In private conversation, Dr. Yeivin informed me that the “Herodian marginal drafts” are not the finely finished dressing of courses customarily used above ground but could he ascribed to the rougher dressing of Herodian foundation walls.

The Tanna’im were the Jewish scholars who lived in the Holy Land in the latter part of the Second Temple period and after.

Although the Temple compound was in the shape of a trapezium, the Hékhal or central building of the compound did not necessarily have this shape.

Trapezium is the British term; American mathematicians would call this shape a trapezoid.

The numbered features in the text may be located by these numbers on the plans and pictures in this article.

The Tosefta is a more extensive companion collection to the Mishnah from the same period.

Mr. Hendrik J. Bruins, a geologist, was unable to say for certain whether or not this rock was naturally flat or had been worked. There are no signs of tool marks on the surface, over which run natural cracks, so the former possibility is to be preferred.

See Fleming’s article, “The Undiscovered Gate Beneath Jerusalem’s Golden Gate,” BAR 09:01.