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Where Ancient Jerusalem’s Walls Actually Were
Most people imagine ancient Jerusalem as a sprawling city inside today’s Old City walls. The reality is far stranger. In this episode, we trace Jerusalem’s boundaries from the 12-acre City of David ridge (south of the modern Old City) through Hezekiah’s tenfold expansion, Herod’s 230-acre metropolis, and the surprising truth about Ottoman-era Jerusalem: a provincial backwater confined to one square kilometer for 400 years. We map these ancient boundaries onto modern streets—where the Dung Gate, Western Wall, and Kidron Valley fit in, how the Temple Mount was originally a northern suburb, and…
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