George Wesley Buchanan (December 25, 1921 – 2019) was an American biblical scholar who was a Professor of New Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.[1] He was on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Biblical Archaeology Review.

[5] He has also collaborated at Logos Bible Software with, among other works, the George Wesley Buchanan Collection (9 vols.

[6] G. W. Buchanan was one of the people who purported he change in thinking regarding the location of the Jewish Temple.

He changed his thinking about the location when he realized there is no natural spring on / under the Haram esh-Sharif.

The gihon spring is a siphon spring located 600 feet south of Al Aqsa Mosque, where the Ophel originally stood.