Endnote 5 – Jerusalem and the Holy Land(fill)
This view is still maintained by Alon de-Groot. See “Discussion and Conclusions” in Alon de-Groot and Hannah Bernick-Greenberg, eds., Excavations at the City of David 1978–1985 directed by Yigal Shiloh VIIA. Area E, Stratigraphy and Architecture: Text (Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012), pp. 141–184. For a different interpretation, see Guy Bar-Oz, et al., “Holy Garbage’: A Quantitative Study of the City-Dump of Early Roman Jerusalem,” in Levant 39 (2007), pp. 1–12.