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46 Salah al-Din Street \/ 46 Saladin Street
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It\u2019s a pretty ordinary-looking Arab area in East Jerusalem, outside the walls of the Old City. Since my first residence in the neighborhood all the way back in the first part of 1978, I\u2019ve walked along Saladin Street \u2014 or, better, Salah al-Din Street \u2014 far more times than I can count. I\u2019ll almost certainly\u00a0be on it again in about three weeks. These days, though, I walk it with a different sense than when I first did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Obviously, as several have pointed out to me this past week, the most important thing about the first Easter Sunday is that the tomb was empty<\/em> \u2014 not the precise location<\/em> of that empty tomb.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t disagree at all.<\/p>\n

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Still, information about the geographical setting\u00a0of Christ\u2019s death, burial, and resurrection can help to make a very ancient story more vivid, more real<\/em>. \u00a0And that, I think \u2014 beyond even our natural desire to know things \u2014 makes questions about Calvary and the place where our world was transformed entirely worthy of consideration.<\/p>\n

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This piece, by my friend and BYU colleague Jeff Chadwick, has significantly affected my views on the subject:<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/rsc.byu.edu\/archived\/volume-4-number-1-2003\/revisiting-golgotha-and-garden-tomb<\/a><\/p>\n

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