Posted on 10/27/2005 7:10:00 AM PDT by ZGuy
The Pool of Siloam, considered a metaphor in John's Gospel by some New Testament scholars, was in fact a huge basin at the lowest point in the city of Jerusalem. Recent excavations have uncovered two corners and one side of the pool that stretched for half the length of a football field.
"It's very exciting," James Charlesworth, a professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, told CT. "It's very important for the study of the New Testament."
Some Johannine experts have suggested the story in John 9 of the blind man whom Jesus healed and told to wash in the Pool of Siloam wasn't much more than a metaphor. "To dismiss John as not historically important is absurd," Charlesworth said. "Now it becomes clear that the Gospel of John does have reliable historical information. We have found there is such a pool, precisely as John describes it."
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Thank you for this post.
A lot of folks-even ones who call themselves "Christians"-would like John's gospel to go away. John's Jesus is too divine for them.
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Biblical palace found (?) near Old City (King David's Palace)
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[and you managed to nudge out Blam! that's very rare!]
Raiders Of The Lost Pool (New finds bolster the historicity of John's gospel)
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Posted on 10/27/2005 5:26:15 PM PDT by blam
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