Final Days of Jesus The Archaeological Evidence

Name: Final Days of Jesus The Archaeological Evidence
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ISBN: 9780061458484

ISBN-10: 0061458481

ISBN-13: 9780061458484

Edition: 2009

Authors: Shimon Gibson

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We all know that Jesus spent his last week in Jerusalem. In fact, it is from this small window of his final seven days that almost all historical data surrounding Jesus has been collected. Few theologians and historians have had direct access to the ancient buried city of Jerusalem, let alone to remains dating specifically from the time of Jesus. This book is the first book of its kind to examine the final days of Jesus using the full array of archaeological discoveries dug up in Jerusalem. Renowned archaeologist Shimon Gibson has been has been digging in Jerusalem since the 1970s and has been directly connected to every discovery pertaining to Jesus and the first century. And it is this…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034

Shimon Gibson is a senior associate fellow at the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and an adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. During the past thirty years he has conducted numerous excavations and field surveys in different parts of Israel. He was the head of the research and scientific reports department of the Israel Antiquities Authority from 1995 to 1999.



Introduction



The Road to Jerusalem



Raising a Dead Man



Festivities at the House of God



Signs and Wonders at Bethesda and Siloam



The Heavy Hand of the Law: A Trial



The Split in the Tree: A Crucifixion



The Burial of Jesus



Who Moved the Stone?


Conclusion


Excursus: The Talpiot Tomb and the "James" Ossuary


Notes


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


List of Illustrations


Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings


Index