Old City, Jerusalem

December 17, 2022
001 - IMG_0626 The Garden Tomb is a rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem, which was unearthed in 1867 and is considered by some Protestants to be the site of the burial and resurrection...
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003 - P1190739 Entrance to The Garden Tomb - The re-use of old tombs was not an uncommon practice in ancient times, but this would seem to contradict the biblical text that...
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005 - P1190740 Also, the trough in front of the tomb and the nearby cistern, described by proponents of the Garden Tomb as part of the tomb's sealing system and as the...
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006 - P1190741 The organisation maintaining the Garden Tomb refrains from claiming that this is the authentic tomb of Jesus, while pointing out the similarities with the site...
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007 - P1190742 The Garden Tomb is adjacent to a rocky escarpment which since the mid-nineteenth century has been proposed by some scholars to be Golgotha. It has since been...
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008 - IMG_0628 In contradistinction to this modern identification, the traditional site where the death and resurrection of Christ are believed to have occurred has been the...
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009 - P1190743 The rock next to the cave looks like a skull with some imagination...
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010 - IMG_0629 The Garden Tomb located at the north of the Herod's Gate, outside the wall of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, Jerusalem. About 10 minutes walk from Herod's...
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015 - P1190751 Entrance to the perceived tomb of Jesus.
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017 - IMG_0638 Inside the tomb...
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021 - P1190760 WINEPRESS...
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030 - IMG_0648 Believed this was used as a winepress...
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