[246] Antiquities of the Jews, VIII, v, 2.
[247] See translation, Part II, [p. 377].
[248] See Bliss, Excavations at Jerusalem, pp. 96-109.
[249] See G. A. Smith, Jerusalem, I, 226. For another view, see Paton, Journal of Biblical Literature, XXV, 1-13.
[250] See G. A. Smith, Jerusalem, II, Chapters X and XI.
[251] See Chapter II, [p. 66]; also Part II, [p. 385], f.
[252] Ezra 5:16 states that Sheshbazzar laid the foundations of the house in the reign of Cyrus, but as Haggai and Zechariah give no hint of this, many scholars think there must be some error in the text.
[253] Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, xiii, 5.
[254] See the Mishnah, Middoth 3:6.
[255] Excavations at Jerusalem, 16, ff.