To the Editor:

May I call your attention to a note published in the July 1965 issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review which refers to a recent communication of mine in your columns [“Letters from Readers,” March ’65]. The note bears the initials S. Z., referring, of course, to Solomon Zeitlin, . . . the editor of the Review. I quote:

Josephus, who gives a precise description of the Temple, does not mention a Court of Gentiles. . . . So it is evident, therefore, that there was no Court of Gentiles in the Temple area. Josephus, who was a priest and lived during the time of the Temple, would have mentioned a Court of Gentiles had there been one. . . . Mr. Winter’s statement is untrue. . . . One must proceed with caution in regard to Mr. Winter’s references.

The world of Jewish scholarship is much indebted to Professor Zeitlin for his unceasing discoveries. It might be appropriate, therefore, as a token of gratitude, for the various Jewish academies, colleges, and seminaries of the U.S., as well as the rabbinical councils, to band together and organize a collection for the purchase of a copy of Josephus’s treatise, Against Apion, to be presented to him. When presentation of this volume is made to Professor Zeitlin . . . paragraphs 103 and 104 in the second book . . . might be marked in red ink.

Paul Winter
London, England