Endnote 2 – A Temple’s Golden Anniversary

For a summary statement, see Hillel Geva and Nahman Avigad, “Jerusalem: Second Temple Period,” in E. Stern, ed., New Encycyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 2 (Jerusalem: Carta, 1993, 2008), pp. 717–757 and the various reports in vol. 5, pp. 1,806–1,826. More recently, see Ehud Netzer, The Architecture of Herod, the Great Builder (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006); Silvia Rozenberg and David Mevorah, Herod the Great: The King’s Final Journey (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2013); Orit Peleg-Barkat, The Herodian Architectural Decoration in Light of the Finds from the Temple Mount Excavations, Ph.D. Dissertation (Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007), Hebrew.