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The Temple Menorah—Where Is It?

By Steven Fine

What is history and what is myth? What is true and what is legendary?

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Footnotes

1.

See Nitza Rosovsky, “A Thousand Years of History in Jerusalem’s Quarter,” BAR, May/June 1992.

2.

A midrash is a rabbinic elaboration of a Biblical text.

Endnotes

1.

Lisa Palmieri-Billig, “Shetreet: Pope Likely to Visit Next Year,” Jerusalem Post January 18, 1996, p. 1.

2.

Ronan Bergman, “Ha-Otzrot ha-Yehudiim shel ha-Apifior,” Mussaf Haaretz, May 15, 1996, pp. 18–20, 22 (Hebrew).

3.

Many thanks to Lawrence Schiffman for this information.

4.

“Herzog, Isaac,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 8, pp. 422–425.

5.

Bergman, “Ha-Otzrot.”

6.

Jewish War 6, 387–391. Translations of Josephus follow, for the most part, Josephus Flavius, The Complete Works, trans. Henry St. John Thackery, Ralph Marcus, Allen Wikgren and Louis Feldman (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1961–1965).

7.

Ya’akov Meshorer, Ancient Jewish Coins (Dix Hills, NY: Amphora, 1982), vol. 1, p. 94.

8.

Pliny, Natural History 36, 102, trans. D.E. Eicholz, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1962).

9.

War 7, 158.

10.

Vitruvius, On Architecture 6.5.1, trans. F. Granger, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1934).

11.

See Midrash Tanhuma, ed. S. Buber, Va-yakel 10 (Vilna, Lithuania: Romm, 1913).

12.

Tosefta Kippurim 2:16; The Tosefta, ed. Saul Lieberman, 2nd ed. (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1992).

13.

Jerusalem Talmud, Yoma 4:1, 41c; Talmud Yerushalmi According to Ms. Or. 4720 (Scaql. 3) of the Leiden University Library with Restorations and Corrections (Jerusalem: Academy of the Hebrew Language, 2001).

14.

Sifre Zutta, Be-ha’alotkha to Numbers 8:2; Sifre D’Be Rab and Sifre Autta on Numbers ed. H.S. Horowitz (Jerusalem: Wahrmann, 1966) = Midrash ha-Gadol, ed. Z.M. Rabinowitz (Jerusalem: Rav Kook Institute, 1967).

15.

Avot D’Rabbi Nathan, ed. S. Schechter (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1997), version A, ch. 41, p. 133.

16.

M. N. Adler, The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (New York: Feldheim, 1967), p. 7.

17.

Many thanks to Professor Dale Kinney of Bryn Mawr College, who brought this mosaic to my attention. Professor Kinney’s discussion of it will appear in St. Peter’s in the Vatican, ed. W. Tronzo (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005).