Footnotes

1.

A cubit is approximately 18 inches (the length of the standard cubit ranges from 45 to 52/3 centimeters) and is based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the fingers.

2.

See Gabriel Barkay, “The Divine Name Found in Jerusalem,” BAR 09:02.

3.

The Mishnah is the first great rabbinic commentary and law book, redacted (edited) in about 200 C.E. It forms the core of the Talmud.

Endnotes

1.

Palestinian Talmud (Yerushalmi), Sota 20.1; Nedarim 39.2; Pessahim 36.2.

2.

S. Klein, ed., Sepher Hayyishuv (Jerusalem, 1939), pp. 58–59 (Hebrew). See also Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.2.3.

3.

Tosephta, Bava Batra 1.11.

4.

Magen Broshi, Gabriel Barkay, and Shimon Gibson, “Two Iron Age Tombs Below the Western City Wall, Jerusalem and the Talmudic Law of Purity,” Cathedra 28 (1983), pp. 17–32 (Hebrew).

5.

Yaakov Moshe Toledano, “The Holy Tombs at Tiberias,” in All the Land of Naphtali, ed. H.Z. Hirschberg and Joseph Aviram (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1967), p. 262 (Hebrew).