Proving the "Scholars" wrong once again.
Pretty cool but not surprising.
Another Islamic holy site?
I wish a discussion about the reaction of this blind man's parent's to his cure would generate as much discussion as the pool itself ....
For within their reaction lies the ultimate seed of understanding why so many kids are abandoned, spiritually abandoned, by their parents...
The last dispatch from liberal scholars will be: "It turns out Hell wasn't a figure of speech."
Another interesting point.... Biblical Scholars say that John did not write his gospel until at least the 2d Century AD, well after the destruction of Jerusalem, and that it was not written by the Desciple John, but by someone who assumed his name.
If so, then how did this individual find out about the pool, I wonder?
this is good news and will continue to prove teh claim of Isreal to this land. It will prove to young people that the Bible is not a book written by religous myth makers, but it IS the WORD of GOD.
In a related story, archaeologists also uncovered a pair of ancient "water wings", thought to be those of St. Thomas . . . as he doubted his own ability to swim in the pool. :-)
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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
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