{"id":1117,"date":"2013-06-03T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/?page_id=1117"},"modified":"2013-06-03T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:36:29","slug":"bordeaux-pilgrim-333-ce-on-the-temple-mount","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/course-materials\/rels-6000-pluriform-multilingual-zechariah\/various-zechariah-legends\/bordeaux-pilgrim-333-ce-on-the-temple-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux Pilgrim (333 CE) on the Temple Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Itinerarium Burdigalense<\/em> 589.7-591.7 (<em>apud<\/em> P. Geyer and O. Cuntz, eds., <em>Itineraria et alia geographica<\/em> [CCL 175; Turnhout: Brepols, 1965], 14-16); translation is that of Andrew S. Jacobs, <em>Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity<\/em> (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), 112-13.\u00a0 See also John Wilkinson, <em>Egeria\u2019s Travels to the Holy Land<\/em> (Warminster: Aris &amp; Phillips, 1981).<\/h4>\n<p>There are in Jerusalem two great pools on the side of the Temple, that is, one to the right and the other to the left, which Solomon built.\u00a0But inside the city there are the twin pools, having five porches, which are called Bethsaida.\u00a0There those sick for many years used to be healed.\u00a0 Moreover these pools have water churned up, a sort of scarlet color.\u00a0 There is also a crypt, where Solomon used to torture demons.\u00a0There is the corner of a very tall tower, where the Lord climbed up and said to the one who was tempting him, \u2018And the Lord said to him: You will not tempt the Lord your God, but him only will you serve\u2019 (cf. Matt 4:5-11; Lk 4:1-8).\u00a0There is also the great corner stone, about which it was said: \u2018That which the builders rejected, this same stone is the head of the corner\u2019 (Matt 21:42) and under the pinnacle of the tower are many chambers where Solomon had his palace.\u00a0There also remains the chamber in which he sat and wrote Wisdom, and its roof is of a single stone.\u00a0You also have there great underground cisterns and pools built with great toil, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">and in the building itself where was the Temple that Solomon built, before the altar in marble is the blood of Zacharias\u2014you would say it had been shed today.\u00a0Also all around are the traces of the hobnails of the soldiers who killed him, throughout the area, so that you might think they had been pressed in wax<\/span>.\u00a0There are there also two statues of Hadrian.\u00a0There is also not far off from the statues a pierced stone, to which the Jews come every year, and they anoint it, and they cry out with a groan, and they tear their own garments, and in this way they withdraw.\u00a0There is also there the house of Hezekiah, king of Judaea.<\/p>\n<h4>The \u2018perforated stone\u2019 (<em>lapis pertusus<\/em>) mentioned here may be relevant for Zech 12:10.\u00a0For its possible archaeological recovery and the later Muslim legends associated with it, see Heribert Busse, review of Andreas Kaplony, <em>The Haram of Jerusalem 324-1099<\/em>, in <em>Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam <\/em>29 (2004): 436-38.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itinerarium Burdigalense 589.7-591.7 (apud P. Geyer and O. Cuntz, eds., Itineraria et alia geographica [CCL 175; Turnhout: Brepols, 1965], 14-16); translation is that of Andrew S. Jacobs, Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), 112-13.\u00a0 See also John Wilkinson, Egeria\u2019s Travels to the Holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"parent":430,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3kl1F-i1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1117\/revisions\/1119"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/john-reeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}