Biblical Archaeology Review

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Endnote 9 - Did a Rolling Stone Close Jesus’ Tomb?

Macalister, “Rock-cut Tombs.” See also the recently found burial system in the ‘Ezrat Torah neighborhood of Jerusalem (Zvi Greenhut, “Ezrat Torah Quarter: Jerusalem,” Excavations and Surveys in Israel 10:1 [1992], pp. 26–27).

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Cohen, Tombs of the Kings; Vincent and Steve, Jérusalem de l’Ancien Testament, pp. 346–362.

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Both the earlier and the later examples of round stones served as models for Jesus’ tomb. For example, Felix-Marie Abel, the famous Dominican father who was an expert of Biblical geography, reconstructed Jesus’ tomb with a round blocking stone based on two tombs he found at Abu Ghosh, outside Jerusalem. He thought the tombs dated to the Second Temple period, but it has since been shown that they are Byzantine.

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Eliezer L. Sukenik, “Verschlusstein mit Inschrift aus einer Grabhöle bei Jerusalem,” Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 55 (1932), pp. 124–128; for the plan and section of the upper room, see Nahman Avigad, “The Necropolis,” in Sepher Yerushalayim, ed. Michael Avi-Yonah (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, 1956), p. 326 (in Hebrew).

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Amos Kloner, “A Burial Monument of the Second Temple Period West of the Old City of Jerusalem,” Eretz Israel 18 (1985), pp. 58–64.

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Maximilian Cohen (=Kon), The Tombs of the Kings (Tel Aviv, 1947) (in Hebrew); Vincent and Steve, Jérusalem de l’Ancien Testament, pp. 346–362.

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Conrad Schick, “Recent Discoveries at the Nicophorieh,” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement (PEFQS) 25 (1892), pp. 115–120; F.M. Séjourne, “Chronique biblique 4, ” Revue biblique 1 (1892), pp. 267–272; R.A.S. Macalister, “The Nicophorieh Tomb,” PEFQS 33 (1900), pp. 397–402; Louis-Hugues Vincent and A.M. Steve, Jérusalem de l’Ancien Testament (Paris: Gabalda, 1954), vol. 1, pp. 342–346.