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| Title: Once more on the Nicanor Gate Pages: 245-283 Type: Generic Year: 1991 Abstract: "Talmudic tradition locates the Nicanor Gate in Jerusalem at the western exit of the Forecourt of Woman and attributes it to a certain Nicanor who brought doors of Corinthian bronze from Alexandria. Josephus, completely unaware of the rabbinic tradition, located the ""Corinthian Gate"" made of Corinthian bronze at the eastern entrance of the Forecourt of Woman. The ""original"" Nicanor Gate referred to the Greek general who was defeated by Judas Maccabeus and whose limbs according to some versions of the story were hung from what was later to become the Nicanor Gate. - D.J.H" Keywords: Archaeology, topography, local and regional history |