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Footnote 4 - The Saga of the Goliath Family—As Revealed in Their Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Tomb

J. B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum, vol. 2, Roma Pontifico Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1952, p. 289 nos. 1308 a–b.

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Footnote 2 - The Saga of the Goliath Family—As Revealed in Their Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Tomb

A loculus (plural loculi; kochim in Hebrew) is a burial recess approximately six feet long hewn into a tomb chamber’s wall.

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An ossuary is a rectangular box with lid, usually hewn out of limestone and measuring about 20 in. long × 10 in. wide × 12 in. high, which was used as a depository for the secondary burial of the deceased’s bones.

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Footnote 1 - The Undiscovered Gate Beneath Jerusalem’s Golden Gate

I do not count the sealed gates, such as the Hulda Gates (Double and Triple) or the Single Gate on the southern side of the Temple Mount, the Postern and “Unnamed Gate” on the east, the Tanner’s Gate on the south, the Late Roman entryway on the west, or the Roman gate under the Damascus Gate.

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Footnote 5 - Scholars’ Corner: Syrian Inscriptions Published in Biblical Archeologist Assist in Understanding Hebrew Bible

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Footnote 4 - Scholars’ Corner: Syrian Inscriptions Published in Biblical Archeologist Assist in Understanding Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew word s\elem is also translated as statue.

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Footnote 3 - Scholars’ Corner: Syrian Inscriptions Published in Biblical Archeologist Assist in Understanding Hebrew Bible

See “Syria Tries to Influence Ebla Scholarship,” BAR 05:02.

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Footnote 2 - Scholars’ Corner: Syrian Inscriptions Published in Biblical Archeologist Assist in Understanding Hebrew Bible

A.R. Millard and P. Bordreuil, “A Statue From Syria with Assyrian and Aramaic Inscriptions,” Biblical Archeologist, Vol. 45, No. 3, p. 135 (Summer 1982).

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Footnote 1 - Scholars’ Corner: Syrian Inscriptions Published in Biblical Archeologist Assist in Understanding Hebrew Bible

A. Abu Assaf, P. Bordreuil and A. R. Millard, La première bilingue assyro-araméenne la statue de Tell Fekherye Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Octobre–Decembre 1981.

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