Of the other mention in Josephus, Josephus scholar Louis H. The general scholarly view is that while the longer passage, known as the Testimonium Flavianum, is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it is broadly agreed upon that it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus, which was then subject to Christian interpolation or forgery. "Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, written around 93–94 AD, includes two references to the biblical Jesus in Books 18 and 20. There's a tunnel that runs all the way along the temple mount wall to the north. You can go into some tunnels to the left that lead underground (to where the street level used to be). The white umbrellas running away from the base of the wall are along a shorter divider that separates the men (left) and women (right) who go up to the wall. The wooden ramp thing on the right side is where tourists go up to see the Dome of the Rock and everything else up top. The buildings to the left are where Wilson's Arch/Bridge is and the ruins of Robinson's Arch are to the far right. See the wall running from Herod's Palace (to the left) across to the temple mount? Just before it connects to the temple mount there are a few tall, narrow arches? Labeled as Wilson's Arch and Bridge? The Wailing Wall is the portion of the temple mount wall between there and Robinson's Arch (slightly to the south and labeled).
See all the various gates - the fortified Jaffa Gate (my personal favorite entry into the old city), the magnificent Damascus Gate, the Lions Gate, the Golden Gate, and the forever lolzy Dung Gate, among the others. Jerusalem, man: beautiful, fascinating city, and no matter your faith, or even a lack of it, you should absolutely visit it - and take a circumferential walk around the old city's walls. Nice move, right? Still, of course, we must note that without Suleiman, the Dome of the Rock would not have been restored and might not be as beautiful as it is now. So what did Suleiman the Ottoman Turk do? He blocked it up! Har-har, now Jesus can't come through it, har har. Prophesied as the gate through which Christ will reenter the city on his Second Coming, retracing his steps (according to some) from Palm Sunday through the same gate. *edit to add to the orientation of the temple: The gate to the due east of the Temple & Dome is called the Golden Gate, and has an interesting story. Put this in geographical context, and the real gravity of the Western/"Wailing" Wall becomes apparent: as Jewish temples faced East, all that contemporary Jews have left of their two beautiful temples' complexes is the back, real wall of the Temple Mount that once held their temples - that's all that's left of their holiest place, and it's such a shame. Chiming in to specify the section of wall adjacent to Wilson's Arch & Bridge.