Endnote 2 – The Puzzling Pool of Bethesda

Today the Pool of Israel has been filled in and is a small public park dedicated to the Islamic philosopher Al-Ghazali. See U.C. von Wahlde, “The Nature and History of the Birkat Isra’il and Its Relation to the Pool ‘With the Expanse of the Sea’ (Sir 50:3): Rereading Charles Warren,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 142, no. 3 (2010), pp. 159–181.