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ReViews: Beneath the Wailing Wall

The Jerusalem Western Wall Tunnel
Dan Bahat
(Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2013), 432 pp., illust., $104 (hardcover)

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Footnotes

1.

David Jacobson “Charles Warren vs. James Fergusson,” BAR 29:05; Dan Bahat, Jerusalem 3000: “Jerusalem Down Under: Tunneling Along Herod’s Temple Mount Wall,” BAR 21:06; Leen Ritmeyer, “Locating the Original Temple Mount,” BAR 18:02.

2.

See “In the Footsteps of Wilson and Warren,” Shimon Gibson’s review of Eilat Mazar with Y. Shalev, P. Reuven, J. Steinberg and B. Balogh, The Walls of the Temple Mount (2 vols.) (Jerusalem: Shoham Academic Research), BAR 39:03.

Endnotes

1.

Charles Warren and C.R. Conder, Survey of Western Palestine: Jerusalem (London, 1884).

2.

S. Gibson and D.M. Jacobson, Below the Temple Mount in Jerusalem: A Sourcebook on the Cisterns, Subterranean Chambers and Conduits of the Haram al-Sharif (Oxford, 1996).

3.

L. Ritmeyer, The Quest, Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 2006).

4.

E. Mazar, The Walls of the Temple Mount (Jerusalem, 2011).

5.

See Appendix, p. 395.

6.

According to Bahat’s estimation, the largest stone would have weighed 570 tons, a figure earlier disputed by this reviewer; see Ritmeyer, The Quest, p. 32.

7.

See, e.g., Ritmeyer, The Quest, pp. 216–21, and G.J. Wightman, “Temple Fortresses in Jerusalem, Part II: The Hasmonean Baris and Herodian Antonia,” Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 10 (1990–1991), pp. 7–35.