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. 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. Related 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...

Garden Tomb

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From Wikipedia: The organisation maintaining the Garden Tomb refrains from claiming that this is the authentic tomb of Jesus, while pointing out the similarities with the site described in the Bible, and the fact that the Garden Tomb better preserves its ancient outlook than the more traditional, but architecturally altered and time-damaged tomb from the mostly crowded Church of the Holy Read more...

Western ‘Wailing’ Wall

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Photos from Randy Melchert From Wikipedia: The Western Wall, Wailing Wall, or Kotel (Hebrew: הַכּוֹתֶל הַמַּעֲרָבִי),[1] known in Islam as the Buraq Wall (Arabic: Ḥā’iṭ al-Burāq حَائِط ٱلْبُرَاق Arabic pronunciation: [‘ħaːʔɪtˤ albʊ’raːq]),[2] is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a relatively small segment of a far longer ancient retaining wall, known also in its entirety as the “Western Wall”.[3] The wall was originally erected as part of the expansion Read more...