Talk:David's Tomb


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Flavius Josephus Antiquities of The Jews, Book 16, Chapter 7, Paragraph 1, Sentence 181, "As for any money, he found none, as Hyrcanus had done, but that furniture of gold, and those precious goods that were laid up there; all of which he took away. However he had a great desire to make a more diligent search, and to go farther in, even as far as the very bodies of David and Solomon;[182] where two of his guards were killed, by a flame that burst out upon those that went in, as the report was. So he was terribly frightened, and went out and built a propitiatory monumentof that fright he had been in; and this of white stone at the mouth of the sepulcher, and that at great expense also." Ibid. Book 13, Chapter 8, Paragraph 4, Sentence 249, "But Hyrcanus opened the sepulcher of David who excelled all other kings in riches, and took out of it three thousand talents. He was also the first of the Jews that, relying on this wealth maintained foreign troops..." George Lamsa's Peshitta translation 1 Kings 2:10 "So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David." King James Authorized Version, 10 "So David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David." The Complete Jewish Bible, David Stern, 10 "Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David." The New Ungers Bible Dictionary, Copyright 1988, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Entry: Jerusalem Pg 676, General Boundary of David's City. "Jebusite Jerusalem of David's day was located on the South East hill and was shaped somewhat like a gigantic human footprint. The enclosed area was about eleven acres, as excavations by Kathleen Kenyon (1961-1967) have demonstrated."

If you take an ancient map of Jerusalem and arrange the top as north, you will notice that at the bottom there is the convergence of three valleys. The Kidron, The Tyropean, and The Hinnom. Mount Tzion is framed facing the Mount of Olives on the top of the southeastern rise between the Tyropean Valley and the Kidron Valley forming a nice block hebrew letter of Shin. This was bounded on the north by The Millo which was a fortified wall improved upon by David himself(ibid Unger's Pg 855 MILLO).

Adjacent to that wall on the north is called the Ophel where David's palace was. This is a ridge extending south of the Temple mount. The Ophel is the original city of Jerusalem, which was occupied by the Jebusites when David captured it. The area known today as the Temple Mount which was the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite at the time is still farther north of The City of David proper. It is also refered to as Mount Moriah in other literature.

Since every source I have cited places David and Solomon's burial site as being in the City of David, it seems quite obvious that these sources are refering to the old Jebusite city, renamed the City of David. With that said, it also seems reasonable that the incredible cache of treasure would have been placed in a very safe area. One must recall that The Bible calls King David the world's richest man.

For strictly personal reasons, I seriously doubt that the encroachments of Hyrcanus and Herod were ever anything more than a drop in the bucket of the wealth of David's Tomb.

brotherwalt1@live.com 24.239.21.55 (talk) 17:11, 25 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mount Zion

We konw now that Mount Zion, the current named so, is not where the Citi of David was. Mount Zion was missnamed by christians, and apparently a replica of David's tomb was built. In this mountain back in the day was Herods quarters and after his death, the Romans regional headquarters. The real Moun Zion was somewhere else in Jerusalem. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.155.102.217 (talk) 04:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

You just can't make stuff up and pretend it is true. If there is anything to this then support it with verification. Gingermint (talk) 23:29, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support all claims with good research. Also, please use proper grammar. No one will, nor should, take anything seriously that looks like it was written by a semi-trained pet. Gingermint (talk) 23:29, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

David's Artifacts

All Jewish King's belongings are burned when they die, so I don't understand how this could claim his items were looted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.179.86.123 (talk) 13:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hagia Sion

Someone added "At the end of the Roman period, a synagogue called Hagiya Zion was built..." with citation to a Hebrew book of Menashe Harel. I cannot access that source, but I have checked that Harel's book in English on the same subject (called Golden Jerusalem) does not make any claim about the name of the synagogue. I suspect that the Hebrew source is being misread, for two reasons. One is that I have sources stating that the name of the synagogue is unknown. The other is that "Hagia" is a Greek word Ἁγία meaning "holy" that was commonly used to name churches in the Byzantine period (the most famous being Hagia Sophia in Istanbul) and is most unlikely as the name of a synagogue. The Byzantine church built on Mount Zion, and the large basilica that replaced it, were both called Hagia Sophia. I will leave this for a time to give an opportunity for a quotation or a supporting source to be brought; after that I will delete the name "Hagiya Zion" from the sentence. Zerotalk 03:09, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The word Hagiyah is as closely rooted to the Hebrew word Hagah meaning to roar, growl, and groan or to meditate as per the Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon - King James Version. These terms the lexicon instructs as sourced strictly from Biblical Prophetic Sermons or speeches in the Old Testament. The Name Haga Zion would be a befitting name for a synagogue being established after the destruction of the second temple, a synagogue that stood for the outcry of Zion or groan of Zion or to meditate on the now diminished state of Zion. The adaption of Hebrew words and earlier sematic words such as Zion being transferred to Christianity is not a new phenomenon. Similarly Hagia Sophia could be interpreted instead of “great Sophia” as “emulate the ideals of Sophia” or “Look Upon Sophia” or even the Lament of Sophia” While this cannot be proven the root term could have just as well begun as Hagah with early Jewish Christians at the site on Mount Zion, as it was the First Church and applied to later church naming in memoriam. At some point the name became associated with Byzantium and not the Hebrew meaning as a growth of both Greek and Roman converts would quite easily be geared towards a word closer to their own language than a Hebrew word lost in antiquity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Academicassasin (talk • contribs) 16:33, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
So you can't bring any evidence but only your own theory? Zerotalk 22:05, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In fact Ἁγία, from ἅγιος, is a Greek word centuries older than any known synagogue. It was used hundreds of times in the Septuagint as the translation of קָדוּשׁ and very many times in the New Testament. I would like to see any example of a structure whose original Jewish name used this word. Zerotalk 01:59, 28 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dajani management

Section moved to talk page. There is absolutely NOTHING reliable in it right now: sources either missing, unreliable, or dead links. Unclarities abound: name of the Muslim shrine, name of the family, which part (tomb, Cenacle) is meant where,...

The "Ibn Dawood" mosque,[1] a name given by the residents of Jerusalem,{{clarify|The mosque is otherwise known as Nabi Dawud/Da'ud. Is Limor a reliable sourse on such details, rather than Pringle etc.?|date=June 2022}} was established[where?] for Muslim prayers under the patronage of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and the supervision of al-Shareef Sheikh Ahmad bin Ali Dajani.{{cn|date=June 2022}}
Management of the site{{which|date=June 2022}} was transferred to the Muslim Palestinian family al-Ashraf Dajani al-Daoudi{{dubious|Apparently "al-Daoudi" was a surname only adopted AFTER Sheikh Ahmad Dajani was given custody; it doesn't belong here. Also: pls explain the "al-Ashraf" bit.|date=June 2022}} family (descendants of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein) by an edict from Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1529.[2] Ahmad Dajani was a Sufi sheikh.{{cn|date=June 2022}} Since then, the Dajani family supervised and maintained this site. As a result, they were given the title of Dahoudi or Dawoodi by the residents of Jerusalem in reference to the King David Tomb complex.[3]{{dubious|Not a reliable source. Dead link as well (leads to family homepage with no hint as to where to search).|date=June 2022}}

References

  1. ^ Limor, Ora (2007). Iris Shagrir; Ronnie Ellenblum; Jonathan Riley-Smith (eds.). Sharing Sacred Space. Ashgate Publishing. p. 227. ISBN 9780754661405. Retrieved 3 June 2022. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Feldinger, Lauren Gelfond (8 July 2013). "Israel and Vatican close to signing Holy Land accord". The Art Newspaper.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Dajani Daoudi Family Website".[dead link]

Unless fully reworked, it cannot be reintroduced. Arminden (talk) 13:39, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal: "David's Tomb" and "Cenacle" belong together

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
To not merge; two independent traditions warranting separate discussion; uncontested objection and no support since the proposal was formally started last September. Klbrain (talk) 09:12, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"David's Tomb" and "Cenacle" ("upper room" of the Last Supper) belong together, as they are both closely intertwined Christian traditions housed in the same building, one above the other, and the articles are dealing with the building, its history and the associated traditions. Separating them is non-academic and creates a big headache, leading to unnecessary repetitions and the propagation of superficial popular narratives. Arminden (talk) 01:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's more a little odd for a single historical building's history to be split into two different articles based on different fairytales. An exemplary POVFORK. Iskandar323 (talk) 09:19, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Arminden: I have long believed the same. The problem is this question I posted a few years ago: Talk:Cenacle#What is the whole building called?
If we can agree on a name, we can easily merge these two articles.
Onceinawhile (talk) 20:18, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Really easy it's not because of the quantity of information. Murphy-O'Connor has an article on "Mount Sion" (he prefers that on Zion) with a section on "The Cenacle and the Tomb of David". We can use "Cenacle and Tomb of David" with redirects for "Tomb of David and Cenacle", "Cenacle", "Tomb of David", "Nebi Da'ud" (also with "mosque"?), etc. It seems to me that the Pentecost and Last Supper were the main, and earlier, local traditions, and that the liturgies held there for David and James came next and gave birth to the tomb of David tradition, so the sequence "Cenacle and Tomb of David" is legit from this pov as well. Arminden (talk) 20:59, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I am supportive of this. Onceinawhile (talk) 23:26, 4 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Seems sensible, and the proposed sequence is also A-Z, so works in that way also, other considerations aside. Iskandar323 (talk) 10:31, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have added hatnotes to check if any different views. Onceinawhile (talk) 19:45, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I would oppose the merging; there is enough material for each of the two, totally independent traditions, and even the two spaces are physically separated - you don't pass nor see David's Tomb to visit the Cenacle today, and vice-versa, so I don't see a benefit or compelling reason to merge the two topics. Dan Palraz (talk) 23:24, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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