Pontius Pilate Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Aqueduct=== Attempts to identify the [[Roman aqueduct|aqueduct]] that is attributed to Pilate in Josephus date to the 19th century.{{sfn|Lémonon|2007|p=155}} In the mid-20th century, [[Amihai Mazar|A. Mazar]] tentatively identified it as the Arrub aqueduct that brought water from [[Solomon's Pools]] to Jerusalem, an identification supported in 2000 by Kenneth Lönnqvist.{{sfn|Lönnqvist|2000|p=64}} Lönnqvist notes that the [[Talmud]] ([[Lamentations Rabbah]] 4.4) records the destruction of an aqueduct from Solomon's Pools by the [[Sicarii]], a group of fanatical religious [[Zealots]], during the [[First Jewish-Roman War]] (66–73); he suggests that if the aqueduct had been funded by the temple treasury as recorded in Josephus, this might explain the Sicarii's targeting of this particular aqueduct.{{sfn|Lönnqvist|2000|p=473}} However, more recent research, published in 2021, dates the construction of another one of the aqueducts providing water to Solomon's Pools, namely the Biar Aqueduct (also known as Wadi el-Biyar Aqueduct), to the mid-first century AD, probably during the time of Pilate.<ref name=NH>{{cite news |last= Hasson |first= Nir |title= Notorious Pontius Pilate Is the One Who Built Jerusalem Aqueduct, Study Finds | newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |date= 19 December 2021 |url-access= subscription |url= https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-12-19/ty-article-magazine/.premium/notorious-pontius-pilate-is-the-one-who-built-jerusalem-aqueduct-study-finds/0000017f-f1bf-d487-abff-f3ff0dae0000 |access-date= 23 June 2022}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page