Complete the following sentence: The available sources do indicate the Acra stood south of the temple, and because 1 Maccabees is a contemporary account of the Maccabean revolt, its account of the Acra (1:35<unk>38) is considered the most reliable. Complete the following sentence: The available sources do indicate the Acra stood south of the temple, and because 1 Maccabees is a contemporary account of the Maccabean revolt, its account of the Acra (1:35<unk>38) is considered the most reliable. Josephus provides an unlikely account of the razing of a hill on which the Acra had stood, yet his description of the end of the
The Great Revolt (70 CE) provides additional evidence for it being located south of the Temple Mount: