[235] “Ant.,” XVII. vi. 4.
[236] Eleazar, son of Jacob, died about 130 A. D., and is quoted in Middoth, i. 9; Rabbi Meier was about the same age (quoted Midd., ii. 2); Rabbi Eleazar, son of Zadok (Midd., iii. 8) died about 120 A. D. See Chiarini, “Talmud de Babylone,” 1831, pp. 105–7. Nothing is said above of the pretended description by Aristeas, as the work is well known to be a forgery.
[237] “Wars,” V. iv. 1, translated from the Greek.
[238] Ibid., iv. 2.
[239] “Wars,” V. vi. 5, vii. 3. This postern may have been the Corner Gate; see back, chap. iv. p. [82]. Distinguishing this from the Valley Gate, the city had twelve gates in all.
[240] “Recovery of Jer.,” 1871, pp. 149, 299, 300; Bliss, “Excav. at Jer.,” 1898, p. 29, and plate iv.
[241] “Ancient Jerusalem,” 1908, p. 297.
[242] Ibid., p. 23. The remains of an old wall outside the Damascus Gate date only from the twelfth century, and will be noticed later.
[243] One at south-west angle is 38 feet 9 inches; another at north-east angle 23 feet 8 inches long.
[244] The drafts, and a border 3 inches wide on the block, are worked with a comb of eight teeth to the inch in two directions, making a criss-cross pattern. The remainder is finely finished with a point.