I suppose I should send out a BiblePlaces Newsletter for this one, but time is short with a group arriving tomorrow and I don’t know that I will. But putting it on the blog is easy…
A month ago a friend alerted me to a new “virtual tour” of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It was selling for $20 and I downloaded the demo and was impressed. But I didn’t want to spend the $20 at the moment. A few weeks later I heard that the price was down to $10 and so I went and bought it. Now I just happened to check the site again to see if the special was still on and I see the price is down to ZERO. Until Jan 2. You can’t beat that price. And it comes with an 89-page essay about the church written by an expert on it, Tom Powers (whom I also am happy to count a friend).
I know that if you’re a Protestant, the church probably doesn’t give you the warm fuzzies. But it probably is built on the actual place of the crucifixion and burial, and it certainly is an interesting and historic building.
It’s free here. Until Jan 2.
BTW, if you google “holy sepulcher” the #1 hit is me. Pretty cool. I beat out the Catholics and the Greeks!
Todd,
You are clearly the best source for this kind of information. Keep up the good work.
Their link is currently broken, but I have contacted them and hope it will be repaired before the end of the free offer period.
Thanks for the heads-up Todd. That made my day!
It looks like they’ve extended the free download to January 8th. :-)
Thanks Todd!