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Endnotes

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The late midrashic collection of rabbinic commentaries on Psalms cites a tradition in the name of the third-century C.E. Rabbi Isaac regarding Psalm 102:18: “[King] David had in mind [future] generations that will have neither prophet, nor priest, nor teacher of righteousness [moreh tzedek] nor Holy Temple to atone for them.”

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Vassilios Tzaferis, “The Ancient Cemetery of Akko—Ptolemais,” in M. Yedaya, ed., The Western Galilee Antiquities (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 1986).