Biblical Archaeology Review

Shimon Gibson and David M. Jacobson, “The Oldest Datable Chambers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,” Biblical Archaeologist 57:3 (1994), pp. 150–160.

An extensive review and bibliography of the suggested locations of the Temple prior to Asher Kaufman and Leen Ritmeyer is given in T.A. Busink, Der Tempel von Jerusalem, von Salomo bis Herodes: Eines Archäologisch-historische Studie unter berücksichtigung des westsemitischen Tempelbaus (Brill: Leiden, 1970–1980), vol. 1, pp. 1–20. A more abridged bibliography of this subject is given in Leen Ritmeyer, “Locating the Original Temple Mount,” pp. 64–65, n. 29.

Leen Ritmeyer, “Locating the Original Temple Mount,” BAR 18:02.

According to Muslim tradition, al-Sakhra marks the spot from which Muhammad ascended to heaven. Jewish tradition views the rock as the place where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac (Muslims believe that it was Abraham’s son Ishmael, their ancestor, rather than Isaac).

Asher S. Kaufman, “Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood,” BAR 09:02.

12Cf. I. Eph‘al in History, Historiography and Interpretation, ed. H. Tadmor and Moshe Weinfeld (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1983), p. 97f.

For the various arguments, textual as well as archaeological, see Malamat, “The Last Wars of the Kingdom of Judah,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies (1950), pp. 226–227; and Israel in Biblical Times (in Hebrew) (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1983), pp. 285–287.

Wiseman, Chronicles of Chaldean Kings, pp. 72–73, lines 11–13.