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The Pool of Siloam Has Been Found, but Where Is the Pool of Siloam?

By Hershel Shanks

Where is the original Pool of Siloam, the water pool that fed Jerusalem in the First Temple period? While the Roman-period Pool of Siloam—where Jesus cured the blind man—has recently been discovered, the earlier Pool of Siloam remains unknown. BAR’s editor investigates a possible location—another piece of the great Jerusalem water system puzzle.

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Footnotes

1.

See Hershel Shanks, “The Siloam Pool: Where Jesus Cured the Blind Man,” BAR 31:05.

2.

“Issue 200: Ten Top Discoveries,” BAR 35:04.

3.

See “Defusing Pseudo Scholarship,”BAR 23:02.

4.

See Hershel Shanks, “Will King Hezekiah Be Dislodged from His Tunnel?” BAR 39:05.

Endnotes

1.

Israel Finkelstein, “The Finds from the Rock-Cut Pool in Jerusalem and the Date of the Siloam Tunnel: An Alternative Interpretation,” Semitica et Classica 6 (2013), pp. 279–284.