Garden Tomb

The grave is a garden tomb in Jerusalem, considered Jesus' grave especially in Anglican and Free Church Christians.

Location

The garden grave is located north of the Damascus Gate just outside the Old City of Jerusalem. The grave chamber of the Roman period was knocked out of a several -meter-high cliff. Today it is surrounded by well-kept gardens, which is considered by many visitors Jerusalem as a place of rest in the multi-ethnic city.

History

In 1867 the garden grave was discovered; 1891 was excavated. Crucial for the further development was the year 1883 when the British Major General Charles Gordon came to the conclusion that there must be at grave yard to the grave of Jesus. As evidence of the situation on the city wall and the shape of the hill or rock which looks like a skull from different sides served him. Since the name " Golgotha ​​" from the Aramaic word Gulgolta ( "Skull " ) can be derived, joined Gordon that this must be the place from which the Gospels (Mt 27,33 EU, Mk 15,22 EU; Jn 19 17 EU). This interpretation had previously been suggested Claude Reignier Conder (1870 ) and Fisher Howe (1871 ). The combination of Golgotha ​​( Γολγοθα ) with Hebrew or Aramaic Gulgolet. Gulgolta 1842, the German scholar Otto Thenius had already been put into play.

1894, which established for the conservation of the place " garden grave association " of their donations, the site was bought by the tomb.

Authenticity

Among archaeologists, it is nowadays commonly assumed that it is not the grave of Jesus at the grave yard. This was the conclusion about the archaeologist Bargil Pixner:

There are indications that seemed long to speak for the authenticity of the tomb ( Christian symbols in the grave inside and the fact that the place was traditionally referred to as " Steinigungsplatz "). Both Christian and Jewish archaeologists hold but in the meantime the Holy Sepulchre as the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ for " scientifically well -founded ". But in addition to the tradition (early testimonies by pilgrims, construction of the basilica by Constantine ) and archaeological evidence favors the fact that that area was also the time of Jesus outside the former city walls.