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many scholars think that it is a post-exilic gloss, introducing a feature from the second temple.

[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