Wrong Route for the Pilgrims?

I've had occasion to mention Shimon Gibson previously and now, he's made CNN, where he claims that the pilgrims on the traditional Via Dolorosa route are in the wrong:

In a new book, titled "The Final Days of Jesus," Gibson says he has found the location of Jesus' trial, where Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, condemned him to death by crucifixion...Gibson believes the trial was actually conducted in an area just outside what is now the western wall of the Old City.

"You have a courtyard and a pavement and a rocky outcrop on one side," he says of the site. Video Watch more about Gibson's claim »

"In the Gospel of John, you have a description of the trial taking place at the Lithostratus, Greek for pavement, at a place called Gabata, which is the word for an ancient hillock or a rocky outcrop, and this is what we have here."

So if the trial was outside the Old City, as Gibson believes, and not in the Antonia Fortress, then the traditional Via Dolorosa, the route Jesus took to his crucifixion, is wrong.

I retraced with Gibson the route of his new Via Dolorosa, which begins in a nondescript parking lot in the Armenian Quarter. It skirts the Ottoman walls of the Old City, next to what is known as the Tower of David near Jaffa Gate, then heads toward the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

...Gibson blames the Crusaders, who conquered Jerusalem in 1099, for the confusion. "When they conquered the city, they effectively turned it into a ghost town," he says. "They slaughtered the Muslims, the Jews and the local Christians, and as a result there was a shifting of tradition ... from one side of the city to another.

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