Biblical Archaeology Review

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Endnote 3 - Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?

Ze’ev Yeivin, “Notes on the Structure over the Cave of Machpelah,” Atiqot VII, 1974, pp. 58–60.

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Endnote 2 - Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?

Account of a verbal report by Colonel Meinertzhagen in Vincent and Mackay, Hebron—Le Haram el-Khalil, pp. 58–60.

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Endnote 1 - Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?

Louis-Hugues Vincent and E. H. J. Mackay, Hebron—Le Haram el-Khalil (Paris, 1923), pp. 53–66; E. Pierotti, Machpela—Ou Tombeau des Patriarches a Hebron (Lausanne, 1869), pp. 92, 94.

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Endnote 25 - Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years

Vincent and Mackay, Hébron—Le Haram el-Khalíl, p. 198ff. Vincent also notes that the description Conder gives of the shaft leading to this chamber as being “covered by a stone like those at the mouths of the wells in Palestine, rising above the church floor” (Conder, “Report on the Visit of Their Royal Highnesses,” p. 200), indicates a rounded opening.

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Endnote 24 - Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years

LeStrange, Palestine Under the Moslems, pp. 319ff.

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Endnote 23 - Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years

LeStrange, Palestine Under the Moslems, pp. 317ff.

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Endnote 22 - Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years

Marcus N. Adler, “Jewish Pilgrims to Palestine” (PEFQS) (London: 1894) pp. 296–297. A similar description is given by another Jewish traveler who visited the cave in 1220.

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Endnote 21 - Patriarchal Burial Site Explored for First Time in 700 Years

Vincent and Mackay, Hébron—Le Haram el-Khalíl, p. 167; Comte Riant, “Invention de la Sépulture des Patriarches,” Archives de l’Orient, Vol 2 (Ernest Leroux: Paris, 1884), p. 418.