Was the Siloam Tunnel Built by Hezekiah?
A walk through Hezekiah's tunnel offers one of the unforgettable highlights of a visit to Jerusalem. The adventure of the scary passage through its narrow limestone confines gives way to marvel over the engineering feat and multifarious associations with a rebellion narrated so fully in Hebrew...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Scholars Press
1996
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| In: |
The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1996, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 138-149 |
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| Summary: | A walk through Hezekiah's tunnel offers one of the unforgettable highlights of a visit to Jerusalem. The adventure of the scary passage through its narrow limestone confines gives way to marvel over the engineering feat and multifarious associations with a rebellion narrated so fully in Hebrew Scripture. Top it all off with an inscription telling of the final moments of the tunnelers' epic midpoint encounter, and even the most inept guide cannot fail to rouse a tour group to a level of awe. But what if it's not Hezekiah's tunnel after all? Rogerson and Davies review the history of the Gihon water system and of the line of the walls of the city, biblical references to the water system, and the genre and the paleography of the inscription. Their conclusion? Will a walk through the Hasmonean tunnel still be thrilling? |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210545 |