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Allred for surveying a new map of the Siloam Tunnel. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. Correspondence to Amos Frumkin. Reprints and Permissions. Radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem.
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If you find something abusive or that does not comply with our terms or guidelines please flag it as inappropriate. Advanced search. Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature. Abstract The historical credibility of texts from the Bible is often debated when compared with Iron Age archaeological finds refs. Access through your institution. Buy or subscribe.
Rent or Buy article Get time limited or full article access on ReadCube. Figure 1: Location map. Figure 2: Typical layering in a core drilled at the bottom of the Siloam Tunnel. References 1 Finkelstein, I. Acknowledgements We thank U. View author publications. Jerusalem, the most prominent city in the Bible, is the source of historical debates and the object of religious devotion.
The paucity of literary remains from Judah and Israel during the biblical period suggests that facility in reading and writing was largely limited to scribal families. A tunnel, still accessible today, that connected the original walled city of Jerusalem to an outside water source.
Likely built by King Hezekiah, as described in 1 Kings A region in northern Mesopotamia whose kings ruled most of the ancient Near East in the 8th and 7th centuries B.
Common Era; a notation used in place of A. Relating to the dynasty established by Simon Maccabeus that ruled Israel independently from B. Hebrew is regarded as the spoken language of ancient Israel but is largely replaced by Aramaic in the Persian period. Of or related to the empire founded by Turks at the turn of the 14th century C. One from that empire. Death of Hezekiah 20The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah, all his power, how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written View more.
Hezekiah prospered in all his Hezekiah 17Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into its midst; he tunneled the rock with iron tools, and built cisterns for the water. Site HarperCollins Dictionary. Add this:. It is this moment that the inscription, six lines of Old Hebrew , narrates: 1 [. Additionally, if the two channels had not been dug, water would have continued to flow into the Rock-cut Pool, and the house would have been underwater.
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Here is your ticket to join us as we discover more and more about the biblical world and its people. Each issue of Biblical Archaeology Review features lavishly illustrated and easy-to-understand articles such as:. The All-Access membership pass is the way to get to know the Bible through biblical archaeology. Your assumption here is that the fill material itself dates to the time of deposition of the fill in the tunnel.
But fill material would probably have been old sherds and debris that the workmen would have had no problem disposing of as a means to block the tunnel. Think about it. There are old churches in Greece incorporating i. Does that mean that the church itself was built in, say, BCE, simply because the oldest stone used in its construction dates to that time?
There is evidence to suggest that the tunnel was built to divert water into the first temple which was built by Solomon in the City of David not Jerusalem.
I believe the Temple Mount was actually the Roman fortress. Hezekiah was a king of Judah in the late eighth century B. The Bible tells us that he did a great deal to protect Jerusalem and to secure its water supply. Among the works he undertook was the construction of a 1,foot-long [ m] tunnel, or conduit, to bring springwater into the city.
In the 19th century, just such a tunnel was discovered. The shape and form of the letters of this inscription lead most scholars to date it to the time of Hezekiah. A decade ago, however, some suggested that the tunnel was built about years later. In , a team of Israeli scientists published the results of their research aimed at fixing a reliable date for the tunnel.
What conclusion did they reach? So here we go again, as President Ronald Reagen used to say. Or something to that effect. At any rate about 15 years ago, a paper was published in the journal, Science, by two archaeologists from Hebrew U. They were trying to date when the tunnel was built based upon carnon dating, flora etc. Guess what?
Their results were the same as written in the Tanach. By Chizkayahu. End of story. Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem set out in to to get a reliable date by carbon … the result put it right at Hezekiah Time. Another possibility is that some earlier kings had set out on this task before Hezekiah — [we know the Canaanites had already dug their own tunnel to the Gihon] — only for these kings to find it too costly to see it through to completion.
Perhaps, Hezekiah was the first king to have the resources and the impending need to see this project to its end. This would resolve issues of rubble and pottery that predate King Hezekiah, which may exist due to earlier, failed attempts. It also helps with the time-frame of finishing the project, if say, the project was already a third of the way complete when Hezekiah took over.
Just a thought. Sounds to me like someone just wants to try moving the dates.
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