Tower of Siloam. James Tissot, The Tower of Siloam According to the Bible, the Tower of Siloam[1] was an ancient tower in Siloam in south Jerusalem. In Luke 13:1-5, in a discourse on the need for individual repentance for sin, Jesus refers to 18 who died when the Tower of Siloam fell on them. Apparently they were innocent victims of a calamity which was due to no fault of those killed. The Tower of Siloam itself is mentioned only in Luke 13:4 as part of a larger passage contained in verses 13:1-5.
Biblical reference[edit] Christ teaching in the Temple "Some who were present" reported to Jesus that the cruel ruler Pontius Pilate had killed some Galileans while they were worshiping. Apparently those making the report were looking for Jesus to offer some explanation of why bad things happen to good people—in this case even while they were worshiping.[2] The "sin and calamity" issue involves a presumption often made even today that an extraordinary tragedy in some way must signify extraordinary guilt.
Sudarium of Oviedo. The ark that contains the Sudarium of Oviedo. Background and history[edit] The Sudarium is severely soiled and crumpled, with dark flecks that are symmetrically arranged but form no image, unlike the markings on the Shroud of Turin. No such object is mentioned in accounts of the entombment of Jesus, but it is mentioned as having been present in the empty tomb later (John 20:7). There is no reference to the Sudarium until its mention in 570 by Antoninus of Piacenza, who writes that the Sudarium was being cared for in a cave near the monastery of Saint Mark, in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The Sudarium is presumed to have been taken from Palestine in 614, after the invasion of the Byzantine provinces by the Sassanid Persian King Khosrau II, was carried through northern Africa in 616 and arrived in Spain shortly thereafter.
[citation needed] See also[edit] References[edit] Notes[edit] Further reading[edit] Guscin, Mark (1 June 1998). External links[edit] Jehoash Inscription. The Jehoash Inscription is the name of a controversial artifact rumored to have surfaced in the construction site or in the Muslim cemetery near the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. The inscription describes repairs made to the temple in Jerusalem by Jehoash, son of King Ahaziah of Judah, and corresponds to the account in 2 Kings chapter 12. While some scholars support the antiquity of the patina, which in turn, strengthens the contention that the inscription is authentic, the Israel Antiquities Authority has reported that the inscription is a modern day forgery.[1] Text of the inscription[edit] Transcription Police investigation[edit] Israeli magazine Maariv correspondent Boaz Gaon reported that Israel Antiquities Authority Theft Unit had focused their attention on the "Jehoash Inscription" as expensive bait to defraud a prominent collector in London.
A March 19, 2003, article in Maariv reported that a court had issued a search warrant for Golan's apartment, office and rented warehouse. Prof. James Ossuary. The James Ossuary is a 1st century chalk box that was used for containing the bones of the dead. The Aramaic inscription: Ya'akov bar-Yosef akhui diYeshua (English translation: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus") is cut into one side of the box. The inscription is considered significant because, if genuine, it might provide archeological evidence of Jesus of Nazareth.[1] The existence of the ossuary was announced at an October 21, 2002 Washington press conference co-hosted by the Discovery Channel and the Biblical Archaeology Society. The owner of the ossuary is Oded Golan, an Israeli engineer and antiquities collector.[2] The initial translation of the inscription was done by André Lemaire, a Semitic epigrapher, whose article claiming that the ossuary and its inscription were authentic was published in the November/December 2002 Biblical Archaeology Review.[3][4] Authenticity of the inscription has been challenged.
Significance[edit] Scholarly analysis[edit] According to Dr. Ivory pomegranate. A re-constructioned photo of artifact reconstructed as if fully intact. Lateral view A drawing of the Hebraic inscription with missing letters shown as faded Hebraic inscription from right to left The Ivory Pomegranate is a thumb-sized semitic ornamental artifact acquired by the Israel Museum. It is not actually made of ivory, but of Hippopotamus bone and bears an inscription Holy (Sacred) to the Priest of the House of God (YHWH). At the time of its discovery, it was thought to have adorned the High Priest's sceptre within the Holy of Holies proving the existence of Solomon's Temple. Description[edit] The Ivory Pomegranate is a small ornamental bone object engraved with a short inscription in paleo-Hebrew. There is a vertical break on the body that cuts through the inscription, so that three letters are fragmentary and nine complete.
The pomegranate was popular as a cultic object and was not unique to the worship of Yahweh. In late 2008, Prof. Notes[edit] References[edit]
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