Another View: Small City, Few People
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Endnotes
R. Grafman, “Nehemiah’s ‘Broad Wall,’” Israel Exploration Journal 24 (1974): 50–52; Nahman Avigad, Discovering Jerusalem (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1983), pp. 56–60. On the idea that the name Sha’ar Hayeshanah (“Old Gate”) is a distortion of the original name Sha’ar HaMishneh (“Secondary Gate”), see B. Mazar, “Jerusalem from Isaiah to Jeremiah,” in B. Mazar, ed., Biblical Israel, State and People (Jerusalem, 1992), p. 103.
A summary of the remains of the First Wall around the Southwestern Hill can be found in H. Geva, “The ‘First Wall’ of Jerusalem during the Second Temple Period, an Architectural-Chronological Note,” Eretz-Israel 18: pp. 21–39 (Hebrew)—and also in E. Stern, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, (Jerusalem, 1993), pp. 724–729. A detailed description of a section of the First Wall along its northern side can be found in H. Geva (ed.), Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, Conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969–1982, Vol. I: Architecture and Stratigraphy: Areas A, W, and X-2, Final Report. Jerusalem, 2000, pp. 131–197; H. Geva, Summary and Conclusions of Findings from Areas A, W and X-2, In H. Geva, Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, Conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969–1982, Vol. II, The Finds from Areas A, W, and X-2, Final Report. Jerusalem, 2003, pp. 501–552.