Footnote 1 – Three Shekels for the Lord

See Hershel Shanks, “The Pomegranate Scepter Head—From the Temple of the Lord or From a Temple of Asherah?” BAR 18:03; “Was BAR an Accessory to Highway Robbery?” BAR 14:06; “Pomegranate: Sole Relic from Solomon’s Temple, Smuggled out of Israel, Now Recovered,” Moment, December 1988; André Lemaire, “Probable Head of Priestly Scepter from Solomon’s Temple Surfaces in Jerusalem,” BAR 10:01.