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Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095–1127, trans. F.R. Ryan (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1969) I, xxxi, 5–10.

Josephus, Antiquities 15.391.

Gustaf Dalman, Neue Petra-Forschungen und der heilige Felsen von Jerusalem, chap. 4, “Der heilige Felsen von Jerusalem,” J.C. Hinrich (Leipzig, 1912). See also Hans Schmidt, Der heilige Fels in Jerusalem (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1933).

I would like to thank Joseph G. Hurley, Esq., and his wife Davia Solomon, Esq., for their continued support in the form of a second generous grant through the Biblical Archaeology Society for this work. A travel grant from the Rothschild Foundation made it possible for my family and me to spend considerable time in Jerusalem during the spring and summer of 1994 while I did the post-doctoral research on which this article is based, under the supervision of Professor Gideon Foerster of the Hebrew University.

Charles Clermont-Ganneau, Archaeological Researches in Palestine During the Years 1873–1874 (London: Palestine Exploration Fund, 1899), vol. 1, pp. 216–217.

Josephus, The Jewish War 5.184, and Antiquities of the Jews 15.398.

The details of the research and a comprehensive overview of how the Temple Mount developed is due to be published soon in book form by the Biblical Archaeology Society.

Ephraim Stern, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), vol. 2, p. 718.

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

Barclay, The City of the Great King, pp. 459–469. For the legends concerning this cave its history, and photographs, see Meir Ben-Dov, Jerusalem Man and Stone: An Archaeologist’s Personal View of His City (Tel-Aviv: Modan Publishing House, 1990), pp. 262–266.