Bibliography


Title: The City of David and the Seleucid Acra in Jerusalem
Secondary Title: OLA
Author: Dequeker, Luc
Volume: 19
Pages: 193-210
Type: Journal Article
Year: 1985
Abstract: "L'étude de 1 Mac 1,19-36 et d'Ant. XII,251-252 prouverait que la tendance actuelle à placer L'Acra dans la colline de l'Ophel, au Sud du Temple, est correcte malgré l'absence de resters de la strate 8 à la place correspondante dans les touilles de Y. Shiloh et malgré les affirmations de Josèphe dans Ant. XIII,215-217. Ces affirmations: "its complete demolition, and even the levelling of the hill upon which it stood and the filling of the valley between the Acra and the Temple mount, are the scenery of a heroic epic created by Josephus in order to increase the merits of the Maccabean revolt"". - F. Garcìa Martìnez
Keywords: Archaeology, topography, local and regional history