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Theophanes, Chronographia 93. The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, A.D. 284–813, trans. and commentary Cyril Mango and Roger Scott, with Geoffrey Greatrex (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997). There is no modern edition or translation of Cedrenus. You find the Greek text in Charles A. Fabrot, ed., Patrologiae Graeca 121 (1857). (cf. Cedrenus, Compendium Historiarum).
Hagi Amitzur, “Justinian’s Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem,” in Marcel Poorthius and Chana Safrai, eds., The Centrality of Jerusalem: Historical Perspectives (The Hague: Kok Pharos, 1996), pp. 160–175. Amitzur has also suggested that the measurements indicate a building of 200 x 100 royal cubits, in keeping with Ezekiel’s prophecy of a future Temple (Ezekiel 40).
See Josephus, War 5.190 (cf. Antiquities 8.63; Ezra 3:7; 1 Esdras 4:48; 5:53). In the Jewish tradition of the targums (Aramaic translations of scripture) the temple is sometimes referred to as “Lebanon,” because of the cedars, see references in G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren and Heinz-Josef Fabry, eds., Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol. 7, trans. David E. Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), p. 456.
