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Temple Scroll Revisited

The Gigantic Dimensions of the Visionary Temple in the Temple Scroll

By Magen Broshi

The Temple Scroll and its contents have already been described at some length for BAR readers by the scroll’s editor, the late Yigael Yadin. Until his untimely death in 1984, Professor Yadin was Israel’s most famous archaeologist.a The Temple Scroll is the longest of all the Dead Sea Scrolls (27 feet), and it may well be the most important. I would like to make one small additional point about the Temple Scroll relating to the size of the temple envisioned in it. Of five major subjects dealt with in the scroll, the foremost is the temple, its design and […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Yigael Yadin, “The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll,” BAR 10:05.

Endnotes

1.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 15.421.

2.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 15.420.

3.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jesus, 20.219.

4.

The exact size of the cubit referred to in the scroll is’ unfortunately, unknown to us. I have assumed, somewhat arbitrarily, that the cubit is 0.5 meter or 19.7 inches long, which is 10 to 15 percent longer or shorter than the length of the cubit according to various scholars.

5.

See Magen Broshi, “Estimating the Population of Jerusalem,” BAR 04:02.