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When were the walls of Jerusalem breached?

The Yerushalmi (Taanis 4:5) offers a different view: the walls were indeed breached on the 17th of Tammuz, but there was "a mixup of calculations" and it was mistakenly thought to be the 9th. (The imp …
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Temple mount: wall around court of the gentiles?

I think that the inner colonnaded wall in the Garrard model is actually meant to demarcate the original area of the Temple Mount, which per the Mishnah, Middos 2:1 (English translation here) was a squ …
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How did the Sages know that Jerusalem had a wall in the times of Joshua?

Parts of the city were indeed conquered already in Yehoshua's times or shortly thereafter. Josh. 15:63 states: וְאֶת-הַיְבוּסִי יוֹשְׁבֵי יְרוּשָׁלִַם, לֹא-יוכלו (יָכְלוּ) בְנֵי-יְהוּדָה לְהוֹ …
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What are the "blind and the lame" that David wanted to be rid of when he entered Jerusalem, ...

As you said, Ralbag (and most of the commentaries) understand this to be talking about statues of some kind. (Metzudas David to 5:8 also cites this as a second explanation.) So according to that view …
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