It is also available free at Google Books. It seems to be available only in a 10-volume collection of Archaeological and Theological Studies of Jerusalem.
The City of the Great King or, Jerusalem As It Was, As It Is, and As It Is To Be is available in Logos format. Lewis discusses some of the other discoveries made by Turner.īarclay’s book is not to be forgotten.
This work includes the essay on Barclay and other biographical portraits by Lewis. Abilene Christian University Press, 2013. “James Turner Barclay: Explorer of Nineteenth-Century Jerusalem.” Biblical Archaeologist 51 (1988). Initially I began with a reference to the following works. Mazar mistakenly identified Barclay as a “British architect.” This work incorrectly identifies Barclay as “an American consul in Jerusalem at the end of the nineteenth century and one of the first scholars of Jerusalem.” Barclay was a medical missionary who lived in Jerusalem on two occasions (61). He shows eight layers of Herodian stones below the present level. Ben-Dov includes a full-page drawing of the gate showing the present level, the Omayyad level, and the Second Temple level. The drawings and photos in this book are very nice. Understanding the Holy Temple Jesus Knew, pp. The Quest, Revealing the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, pp. This post includes a photo of the central part of the lintel over Barclay’s Gate. See the post on “Barclay’s Gate in the Western Wall of the Temple Mount” here. I recommend that you go there for a better understanding of the gate structure. Leen Ritmeyer has provided numerous drawing of Barclay’s Gate in his books and blog. Ground level view with the northern end of the lentel showing.
The first photo shows the Mughrabi Bridge entrance. I am hopeful that our photographs will make clear the location of Barclay’s Gate for those who wish to get a glimpse of it on their next trip to Jerusalem. Before they were converted into reservoirs, they were stone hallways and formed an underground ramp leading in a southerly direction from the Kiphonos Gate to the upper courts of the Temple area (Mazar 1975: 133–34). Behind the wall a passage leads through one or two ancient cisterns with vaulted roofs which are situated under the Haram platform. The gateway (opening) is 28.7 feet (8.75 meters) high, but the threshold is missing.… Inside the gate, there was once a vestibule which is now blocked by a wall. Its tremendous single-stone sill, twenty-five feet long and over seven feet high (7.5 x 2.1 meters), rests on the master course of the Western Wall, that is, at the level of the thresholds of several of its gates. Benjamin Mazar has identified Barclay’s Gate as the Kiphonos Gate of the Mishnah ( Middoth, chapter 1, mishnah 3 see Danby 1933: 590): He says,īarclay considered it to have been one of the four gates mentioned by Josephus in his description of the western wall ( Jewish Antiquities, book 15, chapter 11, paragraph 5 see Marcus and Wikgren 1963: 199). Lewis states that Barclay’s discovery was confirmed by Charles W. Some time after the gate was filled in, the corridor into which it led was made into a cistern. Only a part of the lintel is still visible. It is above the women’s area of the western wall, just over the stairway that leads into a room on its south side. The lintel of this gate is below the Maghrabi gate, which tourists use today to enter the Haram from the west. While surveying the Haram precinct, Barclay noticed a blocked-up entrance, located 82 meters from the area’s southwest corner. Lewis describes briefly the account given by Barclay in The City of the Great King. Perhaps Turner’s best known discovery was a gate in the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, now known as Barclay’s Gate. James Turner Barclay, medical missionary to Jerusalem in 61, which we have written about here (with other links). In this post we wish to follow-up on the work of Dr.
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