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hjalti · 11-15-2006, 05:16 PM

Hello

I'm looking for a critical evaluation of the claim that the so-called 'Garden Tomb' is the real thing.

All I have found googling is on the (excellent) Rejection of Pascal's Wager:

Quote:

Protestant pilgrims favour the tomb discovered at the “Gordon Calvary”-so named after the nineteenth century British general Charles Gordon who discovered the site. On the site, situated north of the sixteenth century Turkish built wall of the city, sat a small hill. The hill has two caves, which viewed from a distance, looked like a skull. However, there is not a shred of evidence in favour of this site as the actual burial site of Jesus. In fact, the tomb claimed to be the actual tomb in which Jesus was laid, have been shown conclusively by experts to be of a later origin.#

So can any of you NT experts help me?

Toto · 11-15-2006, 06:13 PM

That geocities site is overloaded; the google cache is here

But I am afraid that the Bible can't help you very much. It's not even clear if there was an empty tomb.

Doug Shaver · 11-16-2006, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by hjalti

So can any of you NT experts help me?

I'm not an NT expert, but even assuming that the gospel accounts of Jesus' burial are factual, it would be quite impossible to prove that any particular tomb was that tomb. There is just not enough data in the gospels to establish a connection. We know it probably had to be on a hillside, and we know it had to be somewhere in or near the city of Jerusalem. And that is all.

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Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	That geocities site is overloaded; the google cache is here But I am afraid that the Bible can't help you very much. It's not even clear if there was an empty tomb.

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