Julian Barnett
More Hidden Jerusalem
Summary
Julian Barnett continues to contextualize for us a background to the topography, history and architecture of Jerusalem. Part 2 of 2.
Julian Barnett
Julian Barnett is a teacher, collector, tour guide, and writer with a specialist interest in ultra-orthodoxy within the various faiths. For the last 35 years, he has been investigating and documenting the most extreme sects of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim worlds. His experiences and travels were serialized in the Jerusalem Report and also broadcast on BBC Radio Four Religion. Outside of his full-time history teaching post at Southbank International School, Portland Place, London, Julian lectures at numerous venues around the UK and beyond. In 2013 Julian was a joint winner of the National Teacher of the Year Award.
They’re one of the oldest because they were the first Christian sect within the city. The Armenia itself claims to be the first sovereign Christian state. They claim that land, they put a stake in that land very, very early on. So they have that that their own area there.
Well, who says that they’re not considered? I wouldn’t necessarily agree that they’re not considered. That depends who you are, of course. As with everything in Jews, it depends who you ask and it depends which Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardi Jews. There are so many different Jewish groups. It’s a fascinating question you raise.
Extremely good question. I don’t know the answer to that, and I’m not sure whether that picture could be taken as accurate. Maybe He wasn’t clean for burial by women. But, you know, and this of course is a post Judaic Christian interpretation of Jesus’s preparation for burial. So maybe not to be taken too literally, but it’s a good question you pose.