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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”8\/12″][vc_column_text]The confusion comes from an enigmatic verse from Samuel 2. “The site has classical features, such as Greek columns that have nothing to do with Absalom, who lived about a thousand years earlier.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jerusalem is crisscrossed with dozens of Jewish and Christian sites that have nothing to do with their names. For example, the red haired King David did not build the Tower of David, Hezekiah never bathed in Hezekiah’s pool, and the wise king’s horses were not kept in Solomon’s stables on the Temple Mount.<\/p>\n

So whose fault is this historical confusion? “This comes from a strong desire of people in later times to see the places mentioned in the Bible,” explains Professor Barkay from Bar Ilan University. “We are talking about folk traditions that are not related to scientific research. These things are self-evident, and also happened among Christians who relied on traditions that have nothing to do with historical or archaeological reality.”<\/p>\n

Historical confusion from the book of Samuel<\/strong> – Professor Barkay will reveal the full study tomorrow (Thursday), as part of the 14th Conference of City of David Studies in Jerusalem. Barkay, one of the most experienced archaeologists in Israel, has been involved in the field for more than 40 years, and among other things, he uncovered the silver Priestly Blessing scrolls in the Ketef Hinnom excavation.[\/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval=”3″ images=”7278″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/12″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not Absalom, the son of King David – and not any of his descendants: King Agrippa – the grandson of Herod – is probably buried at Absalom’s Tomb, Professor Gabriel Barkay reveals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":9191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archaeology-3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKing Agrippa is actually buried in Absalom's Tomb - City of David<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not Absalom, the son of King David - not any of his descendants: King Agrippa - the grandson of Herod - is probably buried at Absalom's Tomb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityofdavid.org.il\/en\/king-agrippa-is-actually-buried-in-absaloms-tomb-eng\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"King Agrippa is actually buried in Absalom's Tomb - 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