Israel Museum

Name: Israel Museum
Address: 11 Y.Z. Michaelson, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, 9218812, Israel

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Place Category: Museum - SecularPlace Tags: Archaeology New Testament Old Testament

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Artifacts of Biblical Significance:

Caiaphas Ossuary

Caiaphas Ossuary, Author’s Photo

Tel Dan Stele

Tel Dan Stele, Author’s Photo

Shema Seal

Uzzah’s Tombstone

“Hither were brought
The bones of Uzziah
King of Judah.
Do not open!”

Pontius Pilate Inscription

Museum Photo by אסף.צ

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Jerusalem in the Time of Christ

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Built in the 1960s, before the Six Day War, for the Holyland Hotel, and then moved to the Israel Museum at a cost of $3.5 million. This model is 22,000 square feet, a 1:50 scale. Image Credit: Laliv Gal Pikiwiki Israel, CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons Related Read more...

Shrine of the Book

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From Wikipedia: The shrine houses the Isaiah scroll, dating from the second century BCE, the most intact of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Aleppo Codex, dating from the 10th century CE, the oldest existing Hebrew Bible.[4] A facsimile of the original Isaiah scroll is now on display in the Shrine of the Book. Image Credit: Suicasmo, CC BY-SA 4.0 Read more...

Horatio Spafford Grave

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From FindAGrave: Hymn Writer, Religious Figure. He was a successful businessman in Chicago, Illinois in the late 1800s who lost a great deal of real estate in the Chicago Fire. He penned the famous hymn “It Is Well” after receiving word of the death of his four daughters in an accident at sea on November 22, 1873. Eventually having two Read more...

Church of the Holy Sepulcher

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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is the traditional site of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The primary alternative site, the Garden Tomb, is preferred by evangelicals for the atmosphere but possibly predates Jesus by 5-8 centuries (Matthew 25:28 says that the tomb was a new tomb built for Joseph of Arimathea). See discussion by FIRM, and Read more...

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Monastery of Saint Mark

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Traditional site of John Mark’s mother’s house, where Peter went after being released from prison: 12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Read more...