Places

The events of the week in order. Each stop flies to the place and traces the route taken. Times of day are estimates: the Gospels name only a few hours.

Set the time of day to each event Add the stop that exists only on the Synoptic dating of the Passover (the lambs killed on Thursday)

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Tints every structure whose position or form is a scholarly guess, so the firm evidence stands out from the filling.

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Drawn on the ground: the ways taken during the week as the model reconstructs them, and, for comparison, other reconstructions, later works and traditional routes. None of them is a structure in the model.

People, planting and objects

The tour ends here.

09:00 Third hour

Heading: N 0°
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A historical reconstruction · Fable 5.2

Jerusalem at Passover, c. 30–33 CE

The city in the week of Jesus's final visit, trial and execution, when Pontius Pilate was prefect of Judaea and Caiaphas was high priest.

The hills, the Temple platform and stretches of the walls rest on surviving remains. Much of the rest is rebuilt from ancient descriptions, and some of it is informed guesswork. Every place is marked as attested, reconstructed, traditional or conjectural, so you can see how firm the ground is.

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Camera flights are replaced by fades when your system asks for reduced motion.

A historical reconstruction · Fable 5.2

Jerusalem at Passover

c. 30–33 CE

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