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Endnote 22 - Locating the Original Temple Mount

I would like to thank Dr. Rupert Chapman, secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund, and Shimon Gibson, the photographic officer, for their help and cooperation in obtaining a copy of Simpson’s painting of the “Great Sea.”

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Endnote 21 - Locating the Original Temple Mount

Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews 14.16.2) relates that when Herod, after he was made king, took Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, “the cloisters that were about the Temple were burnt.”

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Endnote 20 - Locating the Original Temple Mount

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Endnote 19 - Locating the Original Temple Mount

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.9.3.

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Endnote 18 - Locating the Original Temple Mount

Josephus, The Jewish War 1.1.4.

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Endnote 17 - Locating the Original Temple Mount

See Yoram Tsafrir, “The Location of the Seleucid Akra in Jerusalem,” in Jerusalem Revealed, ed. Yigael Yadin (Jerusalem: IES, 1975), pp. 85–86. More recently, Gregory J. Wightman, “Temple Fortresses in Jerusalem, Part 1: The Ptolemaic and Seleucid Areas,” Bulletin of Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 9 (1989–1990), pp. 29–40.