In this video, excerpted from his lecture entitled “Was Jesus Buried in the Garden Tomb? First-Century Jewish Burial in Jerusalem,” delivered at the 2006 Jerusalem Perspective Conference, “Insights into Jesus of Nazareth: His Words, His Wisdom, His World,” Gabriel Barkay, world-renowned archaeologist of the Bar Ilan University, discusses burial customs in the first century, and what archaeology can tell us about the burial site of Jesus.
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