The main Jerusalem road during the time of the Second Temple which led to the Temple Mount recently uncovered by Israeli archaeologists in the City of David.
Posted on 04/02/2006 9:57:26 PM PDT by Between the Lines
The main road that ran from Jerusalem's City of David to the Temple Mount during the time of the Second Temple has been uncovered by Israeli archeologists, those involved in the dig said Thursday. The road connected the Shiloah pool in the City of David to the Temple Mount compound.
The 2,000-year-old road was discovered adjacent to the Shiloah pool during ongoing excavations at the site, said Israeli Antiquities Authority archeologist Eli Shukrun. He is directing the dig together with University of Haifa archeologist Prof. Ronny Reich.
The road was used by the tens of thousands of people who came to Jerusalem for the Jewish pilgrimage holidays during the Second Temple Period, who immersed themselves in the Shiloah pool before entering the Temple Mount, Shukrun said. He said the road showed the centrality of both the Temple and the pool for life in the city at the time.
Archeologists had previously discovered the other end of the 600-meter road near the Temple Mount, he said.
The archeologists have not learned when the road was built, but they have determined that it was in use between the first half of the first century BCE and the destruction of the second Jewish Temple by the Romans in 70 CE.
"This was the main road of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period," Shukrun said.
The archeologists also found large stones and boulders from the destruction of the Second Temple, burnt ashes, and an assortment of coins from the failed Jewish rebellion against the Romans.
The excavations at the site are being sponsored by the right-wing Ir David Foundation, which supports the reestablishment of Jewish communities in east Jerusalem.
The latest finds in the City of David, located just outside the walls of the Old City, came two years after Israeli archeologists stumbled upon the 2,000-year-old pool while the city was carrying out infrastructure work for a new sewage line.
The waters of the Shiloah pool, which come from the nearby Gihon spring, were used in Jewish purification rituals carried out, among other times, before visits to the Temple.
The main Jerusalem road during the time of the Second Temple which led to the Temple Mount recently uncovered by Israeli archaeologists in the City of David.
Much is buried under the rubble of two thousand years.
archaeology ping
Ten years ago the Shiloah Pool was used as a trash disposal/urinal by neighboring Arabs of this neighborhood known in Arabic as Silwan. They knew that this site was revered by Jews.
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BUMP.
Ancient discovery ping!
A note on Arab habits:
Saudi Arabia, which is as big as all of Western Europe, is covered with trash (A less sophisticated guy might say "crap"). When I say, "covered," I mean every last square meter, no matter how remote, is strewn with burned-out campfires, tin cans, paper, old pots and pans, scraps of clothing, car parts, bones, animal hides, and worse. Unlike stumbling onto some old abandoned farm, there is no vegetation to cover this. Some parts of Saudi Arabia are mercifully covered with shifting dunes, but most of it is bare rock and all of it is simply a foul, multi-generational garbage dump (and latrine). Amazing.
Of course it hurts, but had Shiloah been Arab territory, in all probability, they would not have treated it any better.
Please G-d these will be restored in the immediate future by Mashiach!
How immediate?
No one knows the hour or the day, so be vigilant and watch and pray!
Hopefully today. If not today, hopefully tomorrow. If not tomorrow, hopefully the day after. If not . . .
PS: Since I'm not a chr*stian you don't have to argue with me, Mr. (or Ms.) Classical Reformation Protestant!
So, in other words, your use of thr word "immediate" is just noise in the statement.
So the word "immediate" has no meaning in the context?
So, in other words, you just want to pick a fight with me for no good reason other than that we have different religious beliefs?
I'll take that as a "yes".
How long is this generation?
Mark 13:30-33
30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
(KJV)
Same length as every other generation in the Bible.
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