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Journey to Jerusalem

Pilgrims and immigrants in the time of Herod

By Jodi Magness

Jerusalem was home to numerous Diaspora Jewish communities before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. From texts to tombs, evidence of these communities abounds. See what it reveals about the city’s cultural, economic, and religious life and diversity.

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Footnotes

1. R. Steven Notley and Jeffrey P. García, “Queen Helena’s Jerusalem Palace—In a Parking Lot?” BAR, May/June 2014.

2. See Andrew Lawler, “Who Built the Tomb of the Kings?” BAR, Winter 2021.

Endnotes

1.
Amos Kloner and Boaz Zissu, The Necropolis of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period (Leuven: Peeters, 2007), p. 179.

2.
See Gideon Avni and Zvi Greenhut, The Akeldama Tombs, Three Burial Caves in the Kidron Valley, Jerusalem, IAA Reports 1 (Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 1996).

3.
See David Noy and Hanswulf Bloedhorn, Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis, vol. III, Syria and Cyprus (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004), pp. 33–35, 231–232.

4.
See Hannah M. Cotton et al., Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae Palaestinae 1.1 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 681–686.