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Yoel Elitzur and Doron Nir-Zevi, “A Rock-hewn Altar Near Shiloh,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly, January-June 2003; and Elitzur and Nir-Zevi, “Mizbeah hazuv ba-Selah mi-Maarav le-Shiloh,” Judea and Samaria Research Studies 12 (2003), pp. 35–48 (in Hebrew).

I am indebted to Guy D. Stiebel, who wrote the chapter on arms in the final report, for this discussion.

John Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades (Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1977), p. 66.

See the discussion of Leah Di Segni, in her chapter on Greek inscriptions in Qedem 43 p. 124.

I am indebted to Orit Peleg, who wrote the chapter on chancel screens in the final report, for this discussion.

Mishnah, Sanhedrin 11.2.

Josephus, The Jewish War 5.5.6 (Loeb translation).

See Eilat Mazar, The Temple Mount Excavations in Jerusalem 1968–1978 Directed by Benjamin Mazar, Final Reports, vol. 2, The Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods, Qedem 43 (Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003), with contributions by Donald T. Ariel, Anat Cohen-Weinberger, Leah Di Segni, Shulamit Hadad, Ya’akov Meshorer, Henk K. Mienis, Haggai Misgav, Oved Pele, Orit Peleg, Lior Shapira and Guy D. Stiebel.

Qedem 29, which was published in 1989, is not part of the publication project.

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