Posted on 08/09/2005 9:37:16 AM PDT by monkeyshine
Are these pictures of the pool just discovered, or the re-built pool from the Middle Ages?
The one in post 20 is from the early 20th century. The link in 20 has a number of sourced pictures.
His left hand?
Naa, that is the sacred toilet paper.
I think there are two pools associated together, I believe it is the much bigger one that was just discovered.
I would think the two pictures on this thread depict the one rebuilt by Constantine's mother at a slightly different location, and that the one discovered today (The same one referenced in the Gospel of John) was buried c. 70 AD, perhaps a little later.
Soo, the Sacred Outhouse is????
1-10-40
Sayings like this are quite common:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
The Prophet said, "Ghusl (taking a bath) on Friday is compulsory for every Muslim reaching the age of puberty."
Times change and standards change. Up until the late 18th century, Christians thought that Islamic bathing was a degenerate practice - a sign that they liked being naked and getting into water. Good moral people only used to bathe once a year!
Israeli and British scientists have determined that Siloam's Tunnel, a long, circuitous underground passage constructed below Jerusalem's ancient City of David, was probably built about 700 B.C., when King Hezekiah ruled the land of Judea.
The radiometric dating lends weight to biblical references (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:3, 4), ax well as to a very old inscription, discovered in 1880, on one of the tunnel's walls. Although this inscription appears to refer to Hezekiah, it does not do so by name.
This marks the first time that a structure mentioned in the Bible has been dated radiometrically, according to researchers Amos Frumkin, Aryeh Shimron and Jeff Rosenbaum, who published their findings in the September 11 issue of Nature.
While most scholars have long credited the 1,750-foot-long tunnel to Hezekiah-and in fact call it Hezeldah's Tunnel-a minority insisted the passage was built centuries later.
… According to the Bible, Hezekiah built the tunnel to protect arid Jerusalem's precious water supply from an anticipated siege by the invading Assyrian army. Toward this end the king redirected the water from the Gihon Spring toward the walled City of David-from one side of the city to the other. Modern scientists view the tunnel as a great work of water engineering.
Both the spring and the City of David are located in the Kidron Valley outside the walls of the better-known Old City of Jerusalem, in an east Jerusalem neighborhood called Silwan.
Pictured are Siloam's Pool and the opening to Siloam's Tunnel, below Jerusalem's ancient City of David.
“Jerusalem tunnel dates to King Hezekiah”, The Christian Century. Oct 4, 2003, p 16
Thx!
They were more afraid of the Pharisees & Priests. Rome probably didn't give a hoot unless said Healer was going to declare Himself Caesar.
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