Endnote 8 – Behold the Temple

The inscriptions on the ossuaries from this cave-tomb were published in Hans H. Spoer, “Some Hebrew and Phoenician Inscriptions,” Journal of the American Oriental Society XXVIII (1907), pp. 355–358; Mark Lidzbarski, Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik III (Giessen, Germany: J. Rickersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1909), pp. 50–51; and J.B. Frey, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaicarum II (Rome: Pontificio Instituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1952), pp. 296–300. See also Eleazar L. Sukenik, “Judische Graber Jerusalem um Christi Geburt, Archaologischer Anzeiger,” Jahrbuch des deutschen archaologischen Instituts XLVI (1931), cols. 309–316; and Erwin R. Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, vol. III, Bollingen Series XXXVII (New York: Pantheon Books, 1953), no. 219.