Endnote 31 – Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?

In this connection, it is interesting to mention Tur-Sinai’s suggestion about a relation between a threshing floor and places of disaster and mourning over the dead. N. H. Tur-Sinai, “The Ark of God at Beit Shemesh (1 Samuel VI) and Perez Uzza (2 Samuel VI; 1 Chronicles XIII),” Vetus Testamentum 1 (1951), pp. 275–286.