Word: jerusalem
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Readers of your article about the Church of the Holy Sepulchre [June 13] might be interested to know of a place "outside the walls" of Jerusalem called the Garden Tomb. Unspoiled by crumbling masonry and sectarian feuds, it is an impressive site, especially since many archaeologists now consider it to be the real scene of Christ's crucifixion, burial and resurrection. Many tourists disappointed by the situation you described at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are deeply stirred by this entirely natural spot...
...even more it seems a cumbersome who-done-it that turns eventually into a hope opera. Will the Sanhedrin succeed in its plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression of so many Bavarian countryfolk assembling for a photograph in Biblical costume...
...sorriest sights in Christendom is the shrine that lays claim to being its spiritual center: Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which encompasses the supposed sites of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection. The thousands of pilgrims who seek it out every year find the church little more than a musty ruin. The southern façade is some 6 in. out of plumb, held up by a cat's cradle of iron shorings erected by the British in 1935. Under the crumbling vaulting of the south transept, a scaffold has been put up to protect tourists...
Logistics. Premier Ben-Gurion is no novice Bible scholar; in 1956 he organized a Bible study circle, which included several eminent scholars who met at his house in Jerusalem every other Saturday. Scheduled to speak before the Tel Aviv Journalists' Association on a nonpolitical topic last fortnight, Ben-Gurion happily turned to his longstanding concern about Moses' problem in logistics...
...Showman Billy Rose offered $1,000,000 worth of his private sculpture collection to the Bezalel National Museum of Israel (TIME, Feb. 8), the offer was quickly accepted, and plans were made to display the 50-odd pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city...