The Other Tomb
This is, after all, Jerusalem, the city of competing interests. You can usually count on more than one site being declared “the” place.
Just outside of the present wall at the Damascus Gate,
adjacent to a former quarry with a hauntingly eerie image of a skull in its rock face, is a bucolic garden. And a tomb. In 1883 British General Gordon declared this to be the Tomb of Jesus. 
It is lovely.
And today, with soft music piped in and only a handful of people around praying and quietly reading scripture, it seemed like a much more likely garden tomb than the crazed energy filling the CHS.
Just outside of the present wall at the Damascus Gate,
adjacent to a former quarry with a hauntingly eerie image of a skull in its rock face, is a bucolic garden. And a tomb. In 1883 British General Gordon declared this to be the Tomb of Jesus. 
It is lovely.
And today, with soft music piped in and only a handful of people around praying and quietly reading scripture, it seemed like a much more likely garden tomb than the crazed energy filling the CHS.
posted by He's Not Home (again) at 9:14 pm
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