![]() ![]() von Wahlde looks at the Gospel accounts to see how the stone that sealed the tomb of Jesus is portrayed. In his Biblical Views column “A Rolling Stone That Was Hard to Roll” from the March/April 2015 issue of BAR, Urban C. Is this confirmed or contested by the Biblical text? How was Jesus’ tomb sealed according to the New Testament? Since disk-shaped blocking stones were so rare and since Jesus’ tomb was built for an ordinary person-because it was actually the borrowed, but unused, tomb of Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 27:60)-it seems highly unlikely that it would have been outfitted with a disk-shaped blocking stone.Īrchaeology therefore suggests that the tomb of Jesus would have had a cork-shaped blocking stone. Was the tomb of Jesus among the “top four” Jerusalem tombs from the Second Temple period? ![]() These four elegant Jerusalem tombs belonged to the wealthiest-even royal-families, such as the tomb of Queen Helena of Adiabene.īecome a Member of Biblical Archaeology Society Now and Get More Than Half Off the Regular Price of the All-Access Pass! Explore the world’s most intriguing Biblical scholarshipĭig into more than 9,000 articles in the Biblical Archaeology Society’s vast library plus much more with an All-Access pass. ![]() In fact, of the more than 900 Second Temple-period burial caves around Jerusalem examined by archaeologist Amos Kloner, only four have been discovered with disk-shaped blocking stones. The archaeological evidence suggests that the tomb of Jesus-the unused tomb of Joseph of Arimathea-would have been sealed with a cork-shaped stone. How was Jesus’ tomb sealed? While some Jerusalem tombs from the late Second Temple period boasted round (disk-shaped) rolling stones, it was more common to seal tombs with cork-shaped stones, such as the one pictured here. ![]()
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