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Toto · 08-09-2005, 09:24 AM

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Workers repairing a sewage pipe in the Old City of Jerusalem have discovered the biblical Pool of Siloam, a freshwater reservoir that was a major gathering place for ancient Jews making religious pilgrimages to the city and the reputed site where Jesus cured a man blind from birth, according to the Gospel of John.

The pool was fed by the now famous Hezekiah's Tunnel and is "a much grander affair" than archeologists previously believed, with three tiers of stone stairs allowing easy access to the water, said Hershel Shanks, editor of the Biblical Archaeology Review, which reported the find Monday.

"Scholars have said that there wasn't a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit" to illustrate a point, said New Testament scholar James H. Charlesworth of the Princeton Theological Seminary. "Now we have found the Pool of Siloam … exactly where John said it was."

A gospel that was thought to be "pure theology is now shown to be grounded in history," he said.

So - can anyone find a scholar who said that there wasn't a Pool of Siloam? How did they overlook the picture here from 1900?

Is Harry Potter grounded in history, since it mentions actual locations in Britain?

Why is this sort of thinking tolerated at the Princeton Theological Seminary?

ANd it seems that this discovery was made a year ago. More comments on the LA Times article on this blog from Israel.

Sven · 08-09-2005, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

ANd it seems that this discovery was made a year ago.

Indeed. One can even find a thread with this title ...

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