Biblical Archaeology Review

Remember that Proverbs 31:10 describes the perfect wife as eµsûet hayil, “the woman of strength,” which corresponds to the masculine isû hayil, “the man of strength” (Genesis 47:6, etc.).

Josephus, The Life, Vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library, (London Heinemann, 1926).

See “A-t-on Dégagé l’angle sud-est du Temple de Solomon?” in Syria, L. (1973).

Kathleen M. Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem, (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974), p. 112.

See M. Dunand, “Byblos, Sidon, Jerusalem,” Vetus Testamentum, XVII, 1968; and Kathleen Kenyon’s works Digging Up Jerusalem (1974) and Royal Cities of the Old Testament (1971).

See Yoram Tsafrir, “The Location of the Seleucid Akra in Jerusalem,” Revue Biblique, Vol. 82, p. 177.

For an account of another phase of Warren’s explorations, see “Jerusalem’s Water Supply During Siege—The Rediscovery of Warren’s Shaft,” BAR 07:04.

See K. Creswell, “Early Muslim Architecture,” and Spencer Corbett, “Some Observations on the Gateways to the Herodian Temple in Jerusalem,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly (January–April 1952).

A report that the tomb in front of the Golden Gate was partially destroyed by a bomb in the June 1967 Israeli-Arab war can be found in a pamphlet by Eli Schiller called The Golden Gate (Ariel Publishing House, 1975 [Hebrew]), pp. 6–7.

For a thorough discussion of whether the “Beautiful Gate” of Acts 3:2, 3:10 is the eastern city gate or an interior Temple gate leading from the Court of the Gentiles on the east to the Court of Israel, see Jack Finegan, The Archaeology of the New Testament (Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 129–130.