tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62332795133596659602024-03-18T20:07:33.282-07:00Huntsmans in the Holy LandJoin me, and often my family, as we have spent time in the Holy Land and other interesting places!Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-86818413623369017532019-05-24T22:09:00.000-07:002019-05-29T22:45:58.206-07:00An Extra Day in Jerusalem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While most of our group returned home the night of May 23, my friend Paul Jennings and I spent an extra day in Jerusalem. Joined by Steve Densley, the chief operations officer of Cruise Lady, we visited a number of additional sites in the city.<br />
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<b>City of David and Hezekiah's Tunnel</b><br />
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The first site we visited was, to be honest, a bit controversial. It is a very important
archaeological site representing the earliest settlement area, both
Canaanite and Israelite, in the Jerusalem area. But today's City of
David also lies in what was formerly part of the Arab neighborhood of
Silwan.<br />
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While today's City of David is outside the current Old City's walls,
which are Turkish dating to A.D. 1538 and follow the course of the
earlier Hadrianic Roman walls of c. A.D. 135 (but <i>not</i> the more extensive Byzantine walls of Jerusalem's Christian three centuries), it was always the heart of Jewish Jerusalem.<br />
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The earlier Canaanite city and the City of David itself were situated
on a narrow "thumb" of land extending south from Mount Moriah, later
known as the Temple Mount. It had steep valleys on the other three
sides---the Central Valley on the west, the Hinnom Valley on the
south, and the Qidron Valley on the east. The Qidron Valley continues
northward, separating the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives on the
east. Interestingly, the City of David and the slightly higher Mount
Moriah to its north are NOT the highest of the hills of Jerusalem. The
Western Hill (appearing here labeled as "Hezekiah's Extension" and
"Mount Zion") and the Mount of Olives to the east are much higher. But
the reason that the City of David was chosen for settlement first is
because it is the only hill with a good, constant supply of water in the
form of the Gihon Spring.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Davidic-era ruins built on bedrock</i></td></tr>
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There are a lot of interesting First Temple period excavations to look
at in this park, though some of them, like the important stone retaining
wall of Area G, were not readily viewable because of renovation
projects going on in the park. Also, given our friends' interest and our
rather tight time schedule, we hurried on to the probably the most
interesting part of the City of David, which is Hezekiah's Tunnel.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloam_tunnel" target="_blank">Hezekiah's tunnel</a>
was built in advance of the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 B.C. It
brought the waters of the Gihon Spring into the expanded city of
Jerusalem, funneling them under the City of David into the new Pool of
Siloam at the base of the Central Valley, which was within Hezekiah's
expanded city which now included the Western Hill.<br />
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So we doffed our shoes for water socks or sandals, unzipped our gators
(turning field pants into shorts) or rolled up our pants, and plunged
into the tunnel and its waters. We then slogged through 533 meters of
the winding tunnel with only one flashlight and our a couple of headlamps. It was
fun.<br />
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The water has, at least since the Byzantine period, emptied into a
small-ish pool that recounts the events of John 9, when Jesus healed the
man born blind. However, fairly recent excavations have uncovered a
much larger pool from the Second Temple Period that better fits the
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We then walked up an other tunnel, this one created by archaeologists
to reveal the previously buried street that led up the valley from the
Pool of Siloam up to the Temple Mount. At one point, our modern tunnel
veered and went under said street so that we could walk through the
Herodian drainage tunnel that ran under that street.<br />
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This archaeological tunnel can be taken up to the Davidson
Archaeological Park at the base of the Temple Mount, but we exited it a
bit early to see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givati_Parking_Lot_dig" target="_blank">the new Givati excavations</a>, which some think may be the remains of the palaces of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_of_Adiabene" target="_blank">the Queen of Adiabene</a>.<br />
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<b>Mount Zion, the Citadel Museum, and the Church of Alexander Nefsky</b></div>
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After returning to Mount Zion to visit Dormition Abbey (the chapel, unfortunately, was closed), we hurried to the Citadel Museum at Jaffa Gate. </div>
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The Tower of David Museum is located in a fortress properly known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_David" target="_blank">the Citadel</a>, though it is also called the Tower of David. <a href="http://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.co.il/2011/10/citadel-of-david.html" target="_blank">I had taken Elaine here back on October 10</a>,
but one of the advantages of living in an area so long and revisiting
some of the sites is that one notices things that he or she missed the
first time. Going to <a href="http://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.co.il/2011/10/citadel-of-david.html" target="_blank">that link</a>
will provide more background of the Citadel, and it also has several
video clips that Elaine and I filmed then, including a video tour of
Jerusalem from the Phasael Tower.<br />
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Jerusalem expanded onto the Western Hill across the Tyropoean Valley
from the City of David and the Temple Mount at the time of Hezekiah.
This area now comprises the Jewish Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, and
Mount Zion. After the Babylonian Exile, Jerusalem expanded into this
area again in the Hellenistic Period under the Hasmoneans, when it
became known as the Upper City. This area was protected by deep valleys
on most sides, except the northwestern corner was exposed, so Herod
built three massive towers here to protect the city. Together they
comprised a strong fortress just north of his palace, which was along
the western wall of the city.<br />
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When the Romans destroyed the city in A.D. 70, they left these three
towers standing, together with a section of the western wall, both to
serve as a reminder of the strong city that they had taken but also to
serve as the legionary camp of the Tenth Legion that they posted amidst
the ruins.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down into the middle of the Citadel</td></tr>
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When the Arabs took the city in A.D. 638, they built their own fortress
on the site, using the foundations of the towers as the basis of their
new citadel. Subsequent rulers of Jerusalem---the Crusaders, the
Mamluks, and then the Ottoman Turks---rebuilt and modified the citadel.
Though King David's Jerusalem had never extended to this area, the tall
minaret of the mosque that the Turks had built in the citadel came to
be known as "The Tower of David."<br />
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Climbing to the top of the tallest tower, which still bears the name of
Herod's brother Phasael, affords great views of Jerusalem, both the Old
City to the south, east, and north and modern Israeli West Jerusalem to
the west.<br />
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The small church of St. Mark's is the seat of the Syrian Orthodox archbishop of Jerusalem. Despite its name, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_orthodox_church" target="_blank">the Syrian Church</a>
is not part of the Eastern Orthodox communion. Rather it is an
independent Eastern or "Oriental" church, together with the Copts in
Egypt, the Armenians, and other ancient communities that did not accept
the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451). They believe that their church was
built on the site of the home of Mary the mother of John Mark (the
traditional author of the gospel of Mark). If they are correct, then
this would be site of the Last Supper, though the Byzantines and the
Greek Orthodox and Catholics since maintain that this was instead on
Mount Zion on the site of the current Cenacle. Many of them still speak
Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus and his first disciples.<br />
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On previous occasions with my students, we were hosted by Sister Justina, an Iraqi
Christian who left her home and her home and career as a math teacher to
come to Jerusalem to serve in what the Syrian Orthodox believe is the
first church in Christianity, the place where the Last Supper was held
and then where the Holy Spirit descended upon the church at Pentecost.
She told us the history of the church, shared stories of miracles that
had occurred there, and sang Psalm 150 in Aramaic. She invited me to
take single picture of the altar, something that is usually not
permitted, and then let us go "to the church down," the basement room
that contains the remnants of what the Syrians believe was Mary' house.
There we read from Mark 14 and Acts 2 and sang.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My only pictures of the altar of St. Mark's</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Group pic in "the house down"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A copy of the church's most sacred icon, traditionally held to have been painted by St. Luke</td></tr>
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The church of Alexander Nevsky was our next visit.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Many pass the unobtrusive entrance to Alexander Nevsky</i></td></tr>
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Most Russian sites in Jerusalem are either on the Mount of Olives or in
the so-called Russian Compound in the New City right next to Mea
She'arim. But in the mid nineteenth century the imperial Russian
government bought a prime piece of property in the Old City near the
Holy Sepulchre. <a href="http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/publications/articles/article0083.html" target="_blank">Planning as a hostel for Russian pilgrims, they began construction, only to find significant archaeological remains</a>.
These are preserved below and to the east of the sanctuary that they
eventually built here as part of a larger complex. This church is named
after the Russian saint Alexander Nevsky, the patron of the Czar
Alexander who was ruling Russia at the time.<br />
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These remains included the triumphal gateway into the Temple of Venus
complex built in A.D. 135 by the emperor Hadrian when he re-built
Jerusalem as a Roman city. It is believed that the Venus temple was
built here to coopt the holy site of the Christians, namely where they
had been commemorating the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Nearby are the remnants of the earlier Herodian Wall, giving evidence
for where the course of the wall was in the time of Jesus. In this wall
are the remnants of a city gate, called The Gate of Judgment and
believed to be the one through which Jesus passed on his way to
Jerusalem. Just to the side of the gateway is a narrow slot that some
have tried to argue is the "Eye of the Needle" to which Jesus referred
in the Synoptic story of the Rich Young Man. While this might be
possible, see <a href="http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm" target="_blank">this link for a philological and historical discussion of the expression</a>.
All of these remnants support the traditional claim of the Holy
Sepulchre to be the site at least of the crucifixion, and the original
church complex built by Constantine extended at least this far.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The iconostasis of Alexander Nevsky</i></td></tr>
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Hanging above the sanctuary of Alexander Nevsky is a beautiful series of
passion paintings executed by by Russian artist Nikolay Koshelev. If
you like the work of Danish Carl Bloch, you will love these paintings,
even if my pictures of them are not the best. I only got shots of a
handful of the some-18 paintings that illustrate the story from
Gethsemane to Resurrection. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>One of the arched gates of Hadrian's Temple of Venus</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/publications/articles/article0083.html" target="_blank">Some maintain</a> that the slot to the left of the Gate of Judgment is the "Eye of the Needle"</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The threshold over which Jesus may have passed on his way to Gologotha</i></td></tr>
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<b>Final Sites: The Hidden Gate and the Herodian Family Tomb</b></div>
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Below are pictures of sections of the wall south of the citadel and north of Mount Zion, called "<span style="color: #660000;"><b>The Builders of Jerusalem Garden</b></span>." Fascinating, though few tourists ever go here. You need to walk on foot from Jaffa Gate . . .. <br />
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As we exited the Citadel, we looked at the different periods of
fortifications represented in the stretch of walls that extended to the
south. The walls themselves, of course, date back to the Turkish 1538
construction, but there are some foundations and lower courses visible
from the Hasmonean, Herodian, and Byzantine periods. It was the
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The most interesting part of this to me is the so-called <span style="color: #660000;"><b>Hidden Gate</b></span>,
which is believed to be an exterior gate of the fortified complex
comprising Herod's Palace. I have long held the position that Roman
governors such as Pilate would have subsequently occupied the palace, as
they did in Caesarea. The multi-colored, fine-paved courtyard known
from literary sources would then be the <i>lithostroton</i> or pavement
where Pilate tried Jesus (it is unlikely that a governor and his family
would have lived and worked in the Antonia Fortress, the traditional
location, because it was little more than an army barracks).<br />
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Archaeologist Shimon Gibson, however, maintains in his<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Final-Days-Jesus-LP-Archaeological/dp/B005Q65LIY" target="_blank">The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence</a></i>
that the trial would not have been held inside the palace but rather
outside, in front of crowds, making this a very important possible
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>In this
drawing, note the steps leading out of the barracks area . . . this is
where Jesus would have been presented to the waiting crowds.</i></td></tr>
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Interestingly, the Herodian Family Tomb lies <i>directly </i>across
the western valley and can be seen when standing in this gateway area.
In other words, Herod may have seen himself and his family living in
their palace across the valley from the tomb where deceased members of
the family were interred (though Herod himself was buried in his massive
Herodion southeast of Bethlehem).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The top the tomb complex is a bit of light rock n the center of the picture, divided by a pine tree in front of it</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Closer view of the tomb complex as seen from the west gate of Herod's palace</i></td></tr>
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Paul and I ended our Holy Land visit by having dinner with two of my friends, Shon and Jen Hopkins, at the roof restaurant of the Notre Dame of Jerusalem. It had great food and stunning views!<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-27841729754024775232019-05-23T20:32:00.000-07:002019-05-29T22:08:53.830-07:00Jerusalem Day 3: Gethsemane, BYU Jerusalem Center, the Western Wall and the Temple Steps, and the Garden Tomb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>The Orson Hyde Memorial Garden</b><br />
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We began the final day of our tour by visiting and holding a devotional at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Hyde_Memorial_Garden" target="_blank">the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden</a>, which commemorates the mission of Latter-day Saint apostle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Hyde" target="_blank">Orson Hyde</a> to Jerusalem from April 1841 to December 1842. On October 24, 1841, he climbed the Mount of Olives and, while overlooking the Holy City, dedicated the land, as recounted by my colleague Steve Harper in 2011:<br />
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For further discussion of Elder Hyde's mission and the the establishment of the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden in 1979, see <a href="http://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2011/10/orson-hyde-memorial-gardens.html" target="_blank">my October 23, 2011, blog entry</a>.<br />
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Given that we do not know exactly where on the Mount of Olives Jesus' Gethsemane experience occurred, the Memorial Garden provided us with a peaceful, and private, spot, to have one of the most meaningful devotionals of our trip. We began by singing by singing “God Loved Us So He Sent His Son,” after which Natalie Blackwell prayed for us. After discussing the meaning of Gethsemane as “the place of the olive press,” I then asked Chris Rawlins to consecrate some olive oil for the group. I then read from Luke 22 and D&C 20 and compared Jesus’ “<a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/04/none-were-with-him?lang=eng#d" target="_blank">loneliest journey</a>” to the sacrificial practice of ancient Israel in which the guilt of the worshiper was placed on the victim, which was led to the altar and then sacrificed. We then sang “Reverently and Meekly Now” before giving everyone 15 minutes of private reflection time. <br />
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<b>The Basilica of the Agony and the Garden of Gethsemane</b></div>
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The current church is built on the footprint of the first Byzantine Church that contained in its apse the stone one which early Christians believed Jesus knelt to pray. A later Crusader church was built on a slightly different orientation. Today's basilica is sometimes called "The Church of All Nations" because some 20 countries contributed to build it on the original plan. </div>
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My wife, Elaine, and I attended a moving service on the Thursday before Easter in 2012, after which we joined a candlelight procession through the Qidron Valley to the Church of Peter Gallicantu. Scroll to the bottom of my <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2012/04/holy-thursday-video-and-site-pics.html" target="_blank">April 6, 2012, blog entry</a> to read the section entitled "Holy Hour and the Candlelight Walk," which has pictures and video clips of the experience.</div>
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<b>The BYU Jerusalem Center</b><br />
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Levon next drove us up to <a href="https://jerusalemcenter.ce.byu.edu/" target="_blank">the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Ancient Near Eastern Studies</a>,
which is on Mount Scopus just north and a little west of the Mount of
Olives. this was our family's home for one year, August 2011-August
2012. After watching the orientation video, the group went into the
Auditorium with its spectacular views of the Old City. They were treated
to an organ concert and were able to walk around the grounds of my "second home." <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The view as one approaches the upper entrance of the Jerusalem Center</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The upper gardens</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The view of the Old City through the windows of the Auditorium</i></td></tr>
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Levon drove us back to the Old City, where we once again entered through
the Dung Gate, passed through security, and entered the Western Wall
Plaza. This used to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Quarter" target="_blank">the Mughrabi Quarter</a>,<b> </b>inhabited
by Arabs originally from North Africa. Before 1948, Jewish worshipers
who wanted to get as close to the temple as they could, needed to access
a single stretch of exposed retaining wall in a narrow alley. In those
days it was often called "The Wailing Wall."<br />
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Wailing Wall in Jerusalem in 1929. This image is from the collections
of The British National Archives. See <a href="https://coldwarstudies.com/2012/11/30/palestine-israel-timeline-1917-1929/">https://coldwarstudies.com/2012/11/30/palestine-israel-timeline-1917-1929/</a></i></td></tr>
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After the Israelis gained control of the Old City in 1967, the Mughrabi
Quarter was demolished, and the large plaza that replaced it has opened
up the Western Wall as a sacred space for thousands of worshipers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The </i>Kotel<i>, or Western Wall, contains important remnants of the retaining wall that Herod the Great built for the Temple platform.</i></td></tr>
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After the Western Wall, we entered the archaeological excavations around the base of the Temple Mount. Salah and I explained the excavations around the
southwest corner and southern side of the Temple Mount, where the
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On the remains of the steps below the Huldah Gates, we sang “We Love Thy
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today where Jesus walked," because this is the way Jesus and the
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<b>Gordon's Calvary and the Garden Tomb</b></div>
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As British and other European Protestants increasingly came on
pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the nineteenth century, the often found the
Holy Sepulchre and the Greek, Roman, and Armenians rites celebrated
there to unfamiliar and even off-putting. In 1883, a visiting British
general named Charles Gordon became interested in a rocky escarpment
north of the Old City not far from the Damascus Gate. It was close to
the spot where tradition held that Stephen had been stoned to death (see
Acts 7:54-50), and Gordon wondered whether this might also have been a
place where crucifixions took place. In fact the rocky cliff face looked
much like a skull, which was the meaning of "Golgotha." When an ancient
tomb was discovered nearby, he wondered whether he had found not only
the actual place of the Crucifixion but the site of Jesus's burial as
well.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Tomb" target="_blank">The Garden Tomb Association</a>
was organized to purchase, develop, and maintain the site, and it is
now a lovely venue to recall the suffering, death, and resurrection of
the Lord Jesus Christ. For this reason it is preferred by some
Protestants and many, if not most, Latter-day Saints. In my 2011 book on
Holy Week entitled <i>God So Loved the World</i>, I wrote this about the differences between the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
identification of the Garden Tomb is not without its own problems.
Archaeologists have dated the tomb
itself to the seventh century before Christ, much too early to have been the
“new tomb” described by the
Gospels. Although it is possible that earlier tombs might have been adapted and
reused in later periods, this
unlikelihood, together with the lack of any earlier local traditions about the
site, makes it uncertain that the
Garden Tomb could actually have been the tomb where Jesus’ body was laid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nevertheless,
in many ways the Garden Tomb provides an attractive alternative to the Church
of the Holy
Sepulchre because it provides a place that some Protestants and Latter-day
Saints find more conducive to reading,
praying, and quietly reflecting on the miracle of the Resurrection. In
addition, two LDS Church presidents,
Harold B. Lee and Spencer W. Kimball, felt strongly about the location when
they visited it. Perhaps one way of
understanding the seemingly conflicting suggestions of archaeology and
tradition on the one hand and
sentiment and inspiration on the other is to remember that, in the end, we
commemorate events, not places. The
essential point is that we celebrate the truth that on that first Easter
morning, Jesus came forth from a tomb
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have found
that I feel the Spirit in both places but for different reasons. In the
traditional site, at the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre, I am stirred by the visible devotion of countless pilgrims
who come there to honor the
crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord. Over the course of two millennia,
their faith has made that site sacred.
But near the Garden Tomb I am better able to imagine and relive, in a sense,
what that first Easter was like.
And I draw inspiration from the words of President Gordon B. Hinckley, who
said, “Just outside the walls of
Jerusalem, in this place or somewhere nearby was the tomb of Joseph of
Arimathea, where the body of the Lord
was interred.” (<i>God So Loved the World</i>, 101)</span></div>
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The Garden Tomb Association provided us with a nice, Protestant Irishman as our guide.<br />
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Gordon's Calvary is now called "Skull Hill." Although we did not have time to sing or have any devotional there beyond the introduction our friendly Irish guide gave us (the garden was very full that afternoon), the site made me think of the Crucifixion, a part of Jesus' atoning sacrifice that we as Latter-day Saints do not always appreciate enough. I am inserting here a talk I gave in 2016 on the importance of the cross at BYU:</div>
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After we finished the formal tour, we started our final devotional by singing “Upon the Cross of Calvary.” After Joy Patten prayed, and we sang“Christ the Lord Is Risen Today.” I then read much of John 20 and lead ouor group in the traditional responses “He Is Risen, Alleluia!” and “Alleluia, he is risen indeed!” Following testimonies by several in our group, we then sang “He Is Risen” and I prayed one last time. </div>
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<i><b>It was a wonderful way to end our pilgrimage.</b></i><br />
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Salah and Levon then took us to Christmas Hotel in East Jerusalem for our
Farewell Dinner, and what a farewell it was. For just over a week we
shared meals, bus rides, historical discussions, fun, and spiritual
experiences. It was a wonderful group, and I enjoyed each person in it.
It was hard to say good bye.<br />
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God be with you, until we meet again.</div>
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-27782999062609306062019-05-22T16:35:00.000-07:002019-05-29T20:31:54.252-07:00Jerusalem Day 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>The Haram as-Sharif or "Temple Mount"</b><br />
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We started Wednesday by having Levon drive us around to the Dung Gate,
which is the southern gate of the Old City closest to the Western Wall
and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount" target="_blank">the Temple Mount</a>.
After passing through security, we went up a rickety wooden bridge that
gave us access to the Mughrabi, or "Moroccan," Gate, which is the only
one by which non-Muslims can access the top of the Temple Mount, which
our Muslim friends call <i>al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf</i> or "The Noble Sanctuary."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Dung Gate, by which one accesses both the Western Wall and the Temple Mount</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Mughrabi Bridge and Gate, which is the only way non-Muslims can enter the Haram as-Sharif</i></td></tr>
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After the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in A.D. 70, the Temple
Mount platform remained empty, except for a possible Temple of Jupiter
that Hadrian might have built there after A.D. 135. But by the Byzantine
Period, which is the Greek-speaking, Christian, Roman period, it was
left abandoned and had become a garbage dump, because the Christians
thought that left it as proof of Jesus' prophecy that one stone would
stand upon another.<br />
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When the Muslim Arabs conquered Jerusalem in A.D. 638, Omar, the second
caliph, cleansed the area, and it became the third most holy place in
Islam, after Mecca and Medina. They saw it as the "farthest sanctuary,"
where the prophet Muhammad was believed to have ascended into heaven and
where he prayed with all the prophets before him, and Omar built a
small mosque, which later was replaced with the current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque" target="_blank">Al-Aqsa Mosque</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The paved courts of the Haram cover the same areas of the Second Temple's Court of the Gentiles, where Jesus taught.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Looking through a defensive slit down at the Qidron Valley in the southeast corner of the Temple Mount, which may have been the "pinnacle of the temple"</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The back of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_(Jerusalem)" target="_blank">the Golden Gate</a>, now sealed, on the east central side of the mount</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Golden Gate, which was built in either the late Byzantine or
early Umayyid Period, was probably built on the site of the Shushan
Gate, that opened directly into the temple courts. According to Jewish
tradition, the </i>Shekinah<i> or presence of God, entered and left the
temple through this gate, and one Christian tradition is that Jesus
entered here on Palm Sunday. Some traditions also claim that either the
Jewish Messiah, or Elijah, as the precursor of the Messiah, will return
through this gate. In Muslim tradition, one side of this double gate is
the Gate of Repentance and the other the Gate of Mercy. An Ottoman
cemetery in front of it ostensibly would keep Elijah, the Messiah, or
any false Messiah from entering.</i></td></tr>
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The most famous site on the mount is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock" target="_blank">the Dome of the Rock</a>, begun in A.D. 687 by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik. It rises about the Foundation Stone, upon
which the ark of the covenant probably rested in the Holy of Holies of
Solomon's Temple and which was the only thing in the holiest sanctuary
of the Second Temple. The Muslims venerate it as the place from which
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Only Muslims are allowed inside of both the Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the
Rock, but Salah, as a Muslim himself, went inside and took these pictures for my last group.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Looking at the main entrance of Al Aqsa</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Only Muslims can enter Al Aqsa, but our local guide, Salah, took these pictures for us</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The </i>miḥrāb<i><i><i lang="ar-Latn" title="Arabic-language transliteration">, or prayer niche showing the direction of Mecca, and the </i></i></i>minbar<i><i><i lang="ar-Latn" title="Arabic-language transliteration">, or pulpit, from which the Friday sermon is preached.</i></i></i></td></tr>
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After taking our pictures outside of these sanctuaries and when we had
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First we went to the site of the Pool of Bethesda, which in Jesus' time
was a double pool, probably used for ritual purification for those who
wanted to enter the temple (the upper pool probably emptied into the
lower, fulfilling the requirements for "living water" that could be used
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There was also a tradition that those with
infirmities who entered it "upon the moving of the waters" could be
healed, a tradition that persisted into the Roman period, when it became
the site of a temple to Ascelepius, the god of healing. Later, the Byzantines built a commemorative basilica church across the dike separating the two pools. This, in turn, was replaced by a slightly smaller Crusader church.<br />
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Bethesda from John 5, talked about blood and water imagery in the Gospel
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We then went into the Crusader-era Church of St. Anne on the site, which has marvelous acoustics.There we sang "A Mighty Fortress" and "I Am a Child of God."<br />
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We then walked along the traditional Via Dolorosa, which, since the
eighteenth century, has started at the site of the Antonia Fortress and
follows various stations of the cross in the Muslim and Christian
Quarters until it comes to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. You can
read my more detailed description of it <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2011/12/sunday-in-old-city.html" target="_blank">when I brought my mother and niece to Jerusalem in December of 2011 here</a>. <br />
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In reality, when Pilate was in Jerusalem (the usual capital was Caesarea
on the coast), he probably stayed at the old Palace of Herod, now south
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<b>Church of the Holy Sepulchre</b></div>
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Our next stop was the traditional site of the Crucifixion, Burial, and
Resurrection, all of which have been contained through the years in
different versions of a sprawling church complex. Because of so many
changes to the site with each new phase of construction, it is very
difficult to imagine what the place of crucifixion and the nearby tomb
might have looked like, but a series of artist's renditions can help us
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As early as the First Temple Period, there was a quarry well outside of
the city walls. By the Second Temple Period, this quarry was no longer
used, but it still lay just outside of the Herodian City walls at the
time of Jesus. Near one of the main gates and on the road to Joppa, it
was used as a place of execution, and the sides of the quarry walls
provided ready-made sites to excavate tombs.</div>
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After the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, except for a legionary
camp, the entire city lay empty until the emperor Hadrian decided to
build a new Roman city called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Capitolina" target="_blank">Aelia Capitolina</a>
on the site. Part of claiming the entire site for the new pagan city
was appropriating earlier sacred sites. For instance, a temple to
Jupiter is believed to have been built on top of the Temple Mount, and,
because the quarry site seems to have been important to local
Christians, it was filled in and a temple of Venus was built there.</div>
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When Constantine's mother Helena came to the Holy Land looking for
sacred sites, local Christians pointed to the temple precinct of Venus
as containing both the place where Jesus was crucified and where he was
buried. Her son gave her permission to destroy the pagan temple, and on
the site a large Christian complex replaced it that included a basilica,
the rock of Golgotha, a courtyard called "the sacred garden," and a
rotunda over the site believed to be Jesus' tomb. The original cave had
been cut away and all that was left was the burial shelf, so a small
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The original Holy Sepulche complex was destroyed by the mad Fatimid
caliph al-Hakim in A.D. 1009. Although the Byzantine emperor no longer
controlled the Holy Land, he paid to have it partially rebuilt, and this
new, smaller structure was finished with a complicated floor plan by
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The net result is that the site has much in terms of archaeology and
tradition to recommend it, but the confusing floor and worship patterns
unfamiliar to some Protestants and many Latter-day Saints make it
difficult to identify with the site. Still, it is important to come
here, and the faith of millions of Christians over almost two millennia
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The rock of
Golgotha has been largely covered over with Latin and Greek altars that
now sit on top of it. But a Chapel of Adam under it has a window behind
its altar that shows a piece of the rock.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The crack in
the rock supposedly was formed by the cross being driven into it.
According to a legend (better, an allegory), Adam had been buried on
this site, so the first to benefit from the saving blood of Christ was
Adam when the blood flowed down this crack.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A larger portion of Golgotha can be seen through this window.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This picture shows the older Byzantine columns with characteristic basket capitals behind with heavier Crusader capitals in front</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Aedicule, or shrine, which covers the remains of a first century funerary bench which was believed to have been where Jesus' body lay</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Chapel of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea behind the Rotunda features shaft graves (Hebrew</i>, kokkhim<i>) that were typical of the time of Jesus</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Two </i>kokhim<i> shafts that demonstrate that this was the site of an early first century grave yard</i><br />
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<b>The Jewish Quarter </b></div>
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After lunch we walked through the Jewish Quarter, which had been largely
destroyed during the Jordanian occupation of 1948-1967. After Israel
seized the Old City after the Six Days War, it was rebuilt, but the
previous destruction provided an opportunity for archaeology. Before new
building were built and some old buildings, like the famous Hurva
Synagogue, were rebuilt, archaeologists were allowed to work, and their
efforts uncovered some amazing finds.</div>
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First we saw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Wall_(Jerusalem)" target="_blank">the Broad Wall</a>,
which was part of Hezekiah's expansion of Jerusalem on the Western Hill
in the First Temple. It was populated largely with refugees from the
northern tribes who had fled to Judah's capital when Israel fell to the
Assyrians (because the Book of Mormon record maintains that Lehi and
Laban were from the tribe of Mannaseh and Joseph Smith is reported to
have taught that Sariah and Ishmael were from Ephraim, then these early
Book of Mormon families may have lived in this very area.</div>
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Although we did not see them, palatial mansions of chief priestly
families and other aristocrats have also been uncovered in this area
(you can see two of my earlier visits and discussions some of these
sites <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2011/10/date-to-jewish-quarter.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2012/04/herodian-jerusalem.html" target="_blank">here</a>). We did see, however, some of the excavated Cardo, which was one of the main streets of Roman and then Byzantine Jerusalem.</div>
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<b>The Cenacle, and the Church of St. Peter in Galicantu</b>
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We then exited the Old City through Zion's Gate, which takes its name
from Mount Zion, the hill outside of the city walls immediately south of
the Armenian Quarter (and so southwest from where we had been in the
Jewish Quarter). Zion was originally another name for the temple mount,
but in the Byzantine and Crusader Periods, they misapplied it to this
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The Byzantines had built a large church called "Holy Sion" on the site
that they believed was the place of the Last Supper (the Syrians have
another site, St. Mark's, in the Armenian Quarter; for it, <a href="http://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2012/07/christian-jerusalem.html" target="_blank">go to this blog entry and scroll down to "St. Mark's"</a>). When that building was destroyed, the Crusader's built a later building now called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle" target="_blank">the Cenacle</a>
(which means "the dinner place"). Before we entered this small, usually
crowded upper room, we first gathered in a place of the side of the
street that I often find more conducive for devotionals than the site
itself. Here I talked about the Last Supper and the institution of the
sacrament in 1 Cor 11, Mark 14, and 3 Nephi 18 and 20. We then sang “While of These Emblems, We
Partake” before taking them up to the Cenacle.</div>
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The other church we went to on Mount Zion was St. Peter's in Galicantu,
built, many believe, on the site of palace of the high priest Caiaphas.
Not only does it commemorate the Denial of Peter (hence the name, "St.
Peter of the Cock's Crow"), its lowest levels contain the remains of a
first century dungeon where Jesus might have been held.<br />
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The church was full and the day was hot, so I let Salah, who was fasting for Ramadan, take a rest while I led the group to the bottom of the site rather than through it. We talked about Jesus’ hearing before Caiaphas and looked at the first century steps leading up from the Qidron Valley, up which Jesus may well have been dragged. We then went in to the basement of the church, where the “sacred pit” was empty. Descending into it, we talked about Jesus’ captivity, and I read Psalm 88. Some of our group were fading with the heat, so I let most take a break in the shop while showing the rest the model of the Byzantine city.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The so-called "Holy Stairs" are the remains of a first century stair case leading up from the Qirdon Valley. Jesus may have been dragged up these stairs before he was tried before Caiaphas.</i></td></tr>
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-82102854581023142172019-05-21T15:18:00.000-07:002019-05-29T20:31:36.826-07:00Bethlehem and Jerusalem Day 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Basilica of the Nativity</b><br />
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We checked out of our hotel in Jericho early and drove up to Jerusalem, where those who had not been with us when we crossed over from Jordan had their first view of the city. As is customary, I played the Tabernacle Choir's recording of "The Holy City" as we came out of the Mount Scopus tunnel and Jerusalem came into view.<br />
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Driving around Jerusalem and crossing into Bethlehem, we
first visited The Bethlehem New Storre run by the Nissan Brothers. It is
one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem" target="_blank">Bethlehem</a> megashops, where local Christians sell olive woods and jewelry.<br />
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We then went to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity" target="_blank">the Basilica of the Nativity</a> on Manger Square.<br />
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The traditional site of Jesus' birth was identified by Empress Helena,
Constantine's mother. Local Christians identified a grotto, or cave,
where tradition held the Nativity had taken place. Constantine had a
large basilica built over the site between A.D. 333-339, and originally
it had an opening in the main hall so that worshipers could look down on
the site. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian replaced the original church
in A.D. 565 with an even larger basilica.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Floor plan of the original basilica built by Constantine. The dotted
lines within the octagon represent the viewing area into the grotto</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Floor plan of the current church, originally built by Justinian.
Various caves under the basilica, including the Grotto of the Nativity,
appear as dotted lines.</i></td></tr>
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In this building, the grotto
was covered and is now accessed by steps under the altar. This church
was almost destroyed during the Persian invasion of A.D. 614, but
according to legend, the Persians stopped when they saw a depiction of
the three Magi, who were dressed as Persians, carved on the front of the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The 14-pointed star that marks the traditional spot of Jesus' birth</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The grotto under the altar is always very crowded</i></td></tr>
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Next to the Basilica of the Nativity is the Roman Catholic Church of St.
Catherine, a newer, more open church.<br />
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From it one can access another
set of caves known as St. Jerome's Grotto. Jerome was a Roman Catholic
saint who moved to Bethlehem to translate the Bible into Latin. To do
this, he wanted to be as close to the birthplace of the Word Made Flesh
as he translated his word. This grotto, and some other caves, are part
of the same cave system as the Grotto under the Nativity Church<br />
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In this grotto, which better gives us an idea of what the original caves would have looked like, read Luke 2:1–7 and we sang “Away in a Manger” and “Once in David’s Royal City.”<br />
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<b>Shepherds Field</b></div>
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At <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Sahour" target="_blank">Bayit Sahur</a>, a neighboring village to Bethlehem, we went through t<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Shepherd%27s_Field" target="_blank">he traditional Catholic Shepherds Field</a>,
visiting two of the caves first and singing a few Christmas carols (the hills are filled with these natural caves, which shepherds would have regularly used).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This Franciscan Church commemorating the angelic annunciation to the shepherds was designed to look like a tent</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This open hill recalls the hillsides where shepherds were abiding with their flocks by night</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The nearby Israeli settlement of Har Homa is expanding on these very hillsides. Sadly, these buildings now cover the traditional "LDS Shepherds Field" where we used to take out students</i></td></tr>
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model of Jerusalem in the first century and the Shrine of the Book,
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-15818644239813281122019-05-20T14:23:00.000-07:002019-05-29T20:31:16.692-07:00Holy Land Day 4: Masada, Qumran, the Baptismal Site, and Floating in the Dead Sea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Masada</b><br />
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After along drive southward along the Dead Sea, we arrived at the visitors center of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada" target="_blank">Masada</a>, watched the
cheesy historical video, a then took the tram up to the top of the
plateau, where Herod had built a virtually impregnable fortress and two
palaces in the middle of the Judean desert.<br />
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Originally the site of a Hasmonean fortress, Herod greatly expanded it after he had been forced to leave his family there in 39 B.C. while he went to Rome to gain recognition. He never wanted them, or himself, to need to stay in anything less than luxurious accommodations!<br />
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The site was later held by Jewish rebels, and it was the last place they
held after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. The Romans
built a large siege ramp up the western side of the plateau, but the
zealots committed suicide before the Romans broke through.<br />
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<b>Qumran</b></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran" target="_blank">Qumran </a>is
the site of an ascetic group of Jewish sectarians who had withdrawn
into the desert to worship the Lord apart from the world and the rest of
Judaism. Most scholars think that they were the writers of the Dead Sea
Scrolls, which were found in caves nearby.</div>
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After Qumran, we drove back to Jericho for lunch at the Green Valley/Samar Cafe, which featured a local Palestinian dish of chicken on spicy pita.</div>
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<b>The Baptismal Site of Jesus</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Jordan River</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The traditional baptismal site on the Jordanian side of the river</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The modern facilities on the Israeli side</i></td></tr>
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We next took a swimming---or better, "floating"---break at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea" target="_blank">the Dead Sea</a>, which is the lowest place on earth. The water is so saline that one easily floats.</div>
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-61853072739144869792019-05-19T13:31:00.000-07:002019-05-29T20:30:48.719-07:00Holy Land Day 3: Capernaum, Magdala, the Sea of Galilee, and Bet She'an<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Capernaum</b><br />
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<span dir="rtl" lang="he">כְּפַר נַחוּם</span>, or the "Village of Nahum," was a prosperous fishing village founded in the Hasmonean Period that continued as a an important Jewish town through the Byzantine Period. In Jesus' time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ee;">Capernaum</span></a> was the home of James and John, the sons of Zebedee, and Peter and Andrew, originally from Bethsaida, moved their fishing business there. Because it the headquarters of Jesus' Galilean Ministry, Matthew 9:1 calls it Jesus' "own city."<br />
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After Salah gave us some historical and archeological background, I based our devotional on Mark 1:16-45 and the miracles that Jesus performed there and in the surrounding territory, sometimes known as "the evangelical triangle."<br />
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Miracles do not always come how and when we want them to, nor do miracles alone save. However, so I then read from Matthew 11:20-24, noting how Capernaum, Chorazin, and Bethsaida lay under condemnation because they did not repent and come unto Christ. <br />
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Instead, the greatest miracles of all consist of those that can come unto all in the form of forgiveness, peace of consciousness, a chance of heart, strength in place of weakness, and resurrection.<br />
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I then read Matthew 11:28-30, "Come unto me, all <span class="clarity-word">ye</span> that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.<span class="verse-number verse"> </span>Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.<span class="verse-number verse"> </span>For my yoke <span class="clarity-word">is</span> easy, and my burden is light." We then sang "Come unto Jesus" and prayed.</div>
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After this we took some time to explore the ruins, including the later fourth century "white synagogue" (perhaps built above the site of the original first century synagogue), the dark basalt remains of homes (including the "House of Peter"), and the waterfront, where the first disciples were called to full-time ministry according to the Synoptics.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>One theory (though it is increasingly questioned) is that the fourth century synagogue was built on top of the remains of a first century synagogue built of dark basalt blocks</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>With my friend Paul Jennings on the water front.</i></td></tr>
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<b> </b>Situated where the Via Maris exited the Valley of the Doves at the Sea of
Galilee, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala" target="_blank">Magdala</a> was ideally situated to be a commercial center. Known
in Greek as <i>Tarichae</i>a<i>, </i>it took its name from the word
meaning "pickled fish," because this is where much of the fishing
industry of the Sea of Galilee processed its fish by salting, drying,
and pickling. It is best known, however, as the home of Mary Magdalene, ones of Jesus' closest female followers.</div>
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We had a tour of the site an Irish volunteer,
Sister Selene, who showed us the archaeology of the site, especially the first century
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The site is operated by the Magdala Foundation, which was formed when plans for a Christian guesthouse uncovered first century remains. Now that important parts of the site have been scientifically excavated, the guesthouse is being completed on one side. On the other, near the sea, the foundation has built the impressive Duc in Altum spirituality center, which recounts Jesus' injunction to Peter to "launch out into the deep" (Luke 5:4) before the miraculous draught of fishes. This center has an impressive atruim, which consists of a rotunda featuring columns, each of which commemorates one of Jesus' early female followers.</div>
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We then took the traditional Galilee Boat ride, combining all three buses into one outing. </div>
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After the boat had proceeded to the center of the lake, we held a devotional in which all three headliners spoke. I began by recountin “<a href="http://erichuntsman.com/papers/Our%20Galilee%20Miracle,%20Miracles%20of%20Jesus%20139-143.pdf" target="_blank">Our Galilee Miracle</a>”
story about Samuel, whose autism was seemingly suspended in July of 2012, allowing me to explain much of the Plan of Salvation to him.. The pictures below are from our 2012 experience on
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Tyler Griffin then spoke about the miracles that Jesus performed upon the Sea of Gailee, after which Scott and Maureen Proctor spoke and we all sang, "Master the Tempest is Raging."</div>
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<b> </b>We started our first day in Galilee with a devotional and walk in <i>Wadi Hamam</i>, or "The Valley of the Doves." Under the cliffs of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Arbel" target="_blank">Mount Arbel</a>, this valley marks the route of the branch of the old V<i>ia Maris</i>,
or "Way of the Sea" that led from the coast inland towards Damascus and
eventually to Mesopotamia. Because it passed near Nazareth on its way
to the Sea of Galilee, this was doubtlessly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Trail" target="_blank">the route that Jesus would have taken</a> as he walked from his home town to the Sea of Galilee, where so much of his mortal mission took place.<br />
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Under a tree near the main road, we talked about Jesus' call of his first disciples in Matthew 4 an John 1 and what it meant to follow him. We then sang "Come Follow Me" and then separated, walking up the valley alone in silence to find places to meditate, reflect, and pray.<br />
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Next we continued on to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Beatitudes" target="_blank">the Mount of Beatitudes</a>,
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bit about the intent of the overall Sermon on the Mount, discussed how Jesus fulfilled the Law and then had nine members of our group take turns reading each of the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1–12. After reading
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Our next stop was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Primacy_of_Saint_Peter" target="_blank">St. Peter’s Primacy</a>,
the traditional site of the appearance of the Risen Lord to seven
disciples on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. I read and taught from
John 21, after which we sang “My Redeemer Lives.” The site takes its
name from Jesus commission of Peter to "feed his sheep." I ended by discussing the model of the Beloved Disciple who is last seen following the Risen Lord as a model of discipleship for all of us. (you could see the conclusion of my <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Beloved-Disciple-Coming-through-ebook/dp/B07JGBPSDL" target="_blank">Becoming the Beloved Disciple</a> </i>for more on this 😉)</div>
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pictures next to, and some wading in, the Sea of Galilee, we looked
into the small chapel that features the <i>mensa Christi</i>, or "meal of
Christ," rock which is said to be where Jesus fed the disciples.<br />
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We then walked down to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabgha" target="_blank">Tabgha</a>, where we gathered for our devotional in the atrium of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Multiplication" target="_blank">Church of the Multiplication</a>.
Read Mark 6:41–44, mentioned parts of the Bread of Life Discourse from
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The current Church of the Multiplication is a modern sanctuary built to evoke the original early Christian basilica built to commemorate the miracle of the Feeding of the 5,000</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The cool, peaceful courtyard of the basilica is where we held our devotional</i></td></tr>
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After Tabgha, we drove through Upper Galley, climbing the hills and
passing through the Hula Valley before coming to Banias, where we had
lunch at the Lebanese Restaurant. We then walked into the National Park
that contains <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Philippi" target="_blank">Caesarea Philippi</a>. Here we talked about Peter’s Confession in Mark 8:27–30 and Matthew
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One of the three headwaters of
the Jordan River actually emerges from a cave just above the classical
site, which in Jesus' time was the capital of the tetrarchy of Herod's
son Philip. In the Hellenistic Period a sanctuary to the nature god Pan
had been built here, which is still recalled in the Arabic name for the
site, <i>Banias</i>. Herod had also built a temple to Augustus here, and
all this paganism puts the declaration of Jesus in a different context.
Here was the true Son of God.<br />
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It later was the capital of a small kingdom given to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Agrippa_II" target="_blank">Agrippa II</a>, a great grandson of Herod the Great and the son of Agrippa I.<br />
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About half of my Jordan group continued on with me for the Israel/Palestine portion of our tour, and we were joined by twenty-four new arrivals, so we pulled out of the hotel in Tel Aviv this morning with fifty-six. Paul Jennings (my roommate) offered the devotional, using the conversion of St. Paul to talk about discipleship and coming to know the the Lord and then read the passage in 3 Nephi 5:13, that begins, "I am a disciple of Jesus Christ . . ." We then sang "I Believe in Christ."<br />
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As we drove to our first site, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Maritima" target="_blank">Caesarea Maritima</a>,
up the coast, we talked about some of the events that had happened in
Jaffa just south of Tel Aviv, the ill-dated trip of Jonah and especially
the vision of Peter regarding the Gentiles from Acts 10:9-18. After that
vision, Peter was summoned to Caesarea, which was then the capital of
the Roman province of Judea. There he preached to, converted, and
baptized the centurion Cornelius and his household (Acts 10:24-48).<br />
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Our local guide, Salah Siyam, could not join us until part way through the day, so a colleague, Tarik, assisted me in leading the group through Caesarea. It was built by Herod the Great as the main port of his kingdom,
which was a client state of the Romans at the time. He built it as a
great Greek and Roman-style city where he could enjoy "Gentile" culture
when he wanted to get away from the Jewish strictures of Jerusalem.
After serving as the Roman capital after the death of Herod and the
deposition of his son, Herod Archealus, it later became the capital of
the "Byzantine," or Greek-speaking, Christian, late Roman Judea. Later
it was captured by the Arabs, held by the Crusaders, and destroyed by
the Mamluks.<br />
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Much of this history was reviewed in a video presentation that our
group sat through after Tarik and I took them to the Roman theater,
where a grandson of Herod the Great, Agrippa II, had been struck dead by
the Lord (see Acts 12:20-23).<br />
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Next we walked down to the remains of Herod's palace, which was built on
a jetty out into the Mediterranean so that it had sea views on three
sides. When Judea was a province, this palace served as the headquarters
of the Roman governor, so we held our main devotional in the place of
the judgment hall of the Palace of Herod, talking about the trial of
Paul before Festus and Agrippa II (see Acts 25-26) and singing “I’ll Go
Where You Want Me to Go, Dear Lord.”<br />
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Next we quickly walked through some of the other ruins at Caesarea, such as the hippodrome or horsetrack. As we exited, I read from 2 Timothy about Paul's "finishing his course," or race, before his death.<br />
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As we drove out of Caesarea, we stopped at the ruins of the aqueducts
that Herod had built to bring water to his city from Mount Carmel in the
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<b>Mount Carmel and </b><b>Muhraqa</b><br />
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We then drove up to Mount Carmel, which overlooks the sea and the great
port city of Haifa on one side and the Jezreel Valley on the other. This
was the site of Elijah's legendary context with the priests of Ba'al as
recounted in 1 Kings 18, which is commemorated at the Monastery of
Muhraqa, which means "place of the burning" in Arabic. It was . It was
drizzling at Muraqah, so we sang, “Who’s On the Lord’s Side, Who?” and
then went right up on the roof of the monastery but could not see much
of the Jezreel Valley through the haze.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Under the statue of Elijah killing a priest of Ba'al</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The small chapel of the Carmelite monastery at Muhraqa</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>On the roof of the monastery with a view of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezreel_Valley" target="_blank">Jezreel Valley</a> beyond</i></td></tr>
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From Muhraqa, we drove to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze" target="_blank">Druze </a>village of<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Daliyat al-Karmel, where we had a lunch of falafel and schnitzel.</span><br />
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<b>Megiddo</b><br />
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The wide Jezreel Valley is one of the most fertile parts of Israel,
ancient and modern. It separates the hills and mountains of Samaria to
the south from the hills of Galilee to the north, and it also connects
the coast with the Jordan Valley inland. As a result, it forms an
important crossroads, and almost every invasion of the the Holy Land in
antiquity came through it.<br />
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To control this strategic area, ancient Canaanites built a massive
fortress city at a place called Megiddo. King Solomon of the united
kingdom and later Omri and Ahab of the northern kingdom rebuilt Megiddo
as an important fortress. It is also mentioned in prophecies, such as
Revelation 16:14-21 where the Hebrew <i>Har Megiddo</i>, or "Mount of Megiddo," is incorrectly rendered in Greek as <i>Armageddon</i>.</div>
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After talking about the ultimate victory of the Lord over all evil and opposition, we sang, "Come Thou Glorious Day of Promise."</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>View of the strategic Jezreel Valley (or Valley of Esdraelon) where many battles have been fought through the millennia</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>With the valley tel, or archaeological ruins, behind us</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Solomon and then northern kings such as Omri and Ahab used Megiddo as a military center for their chariots. In the remains of its many stables are the remnants of stone mangers, or feeding troughs. It's hard to imagine the baby Jesus being laid in a stone bed!</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Remains of ancient Megiddo</i></td></tr>
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We then drove into Nazareth, which is the largest Israeli-Arab city in
the country. Like Bethlehem, it was historically a Christian majority
town, but the displacement of so many Palestinians after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus" target="_blank">the <i>Nakbah </i>(Arabic, "disaster") of 1948</a> changed its demographics, and there are now many Muslims residents.</div>
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In the city of Nazareth itself, we went first to the Greek Catholic
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Went to the Basilica of the Annunciation, where I first recounted the
annunciation to Mary in Luke 1 and then read from 1 Nephi 11 and talked about the importance of Mary not only as the mother of Jesus but also as one of the most powerful witnesses of her Son. After letting the
group go through the basilica and the Church of St. Joseph on their own, we met for a picture on north side before having a devotional about the role of Joseph as the guardian of Jesus and as a model for us in a shady area before letting people visit the church dedicated to him.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>the grotto in the lowest level of the Basilica of the Annunciation.
It has the remains of the first Byzantine church and the later Crusader
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I love this fresco of Mary and a grown Jesus comforting an aged Joseph before his death</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The interior of the Church of St. Joseph</i></td></tr>
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Our final stop was Mount Precipice, which by tradition is where the people of Nazareth
tried to throw Jesus down after he angered them in their synagogue (see
Luke 4:28-30). Looking at Mount Tabor across the valley, we talked about
the Transfiguration and sang “Jehovah, Lord of Heaven and Earth.”</div>
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-88707015359520057532019-05-16T11:58:00.000-07:002019-05-18T12:53:47.250-07:00Jordan Day 3: Mount Nebo and Crossing into Palestine and Israel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Early Departure and Passing Madaba</b><br />
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Because Wadi Musa, where we were staying near Petra, is in the far
southern end of Jordan, we needed to leave quite early in the morning so
that we could make a couple of final stops before we crossed into
Israel. We stopped briefly in Madaba, originally a Christian town just
east of the Dead Sea, to see a shop where mosaics are made. Mosaics, in
fact, made this area famous, because when a Greek Orthodox church in the
town was rebuilt, a precious, Byzantine-era mosaic floor was
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The so-called Madaba Map contains a mosaic representation of the Holy
Land, including what is today Jordan, Palestine, and Israel</i></td></tr>
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Although we were not able to stop at St. George's today, I
will mention <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madaba_Map" target="_blank">the Madaba Map</a> briefly to understand its significance and prepare us for a discussion of the topography of Jerusalem in its Christian phase.<br />
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<b>Mount Nebo</b></div>
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After lunch, we drove up to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nebo" target="_blank">Mount Nebo</a>,
or Pisgah, where Moses was able to view the entire Promised Land before
the end of his mortal career. While we cannot be certain exactly where
that event took place (Nebo has several peaks), traditionally it
happened on the highest peak, known in Arabic as Syagha. A Byzantine
church long stood there, and it has recently been rebuilt in an
interesting way. A new modern church was constructed over the site of
the original, which shelters within many of the amazing floor mosaics
and contains some of the original columns, the baptistry, and other
original features. Long under construction, this was the first time I
actually had a chance to enter it, and it was a neat experience. The
appeal was not only historical and aesthetic; I felt the spirit strongly
there, being reminded not only of a sacred event but of the tens of
thousands of people who had worshiped there. We were moved by the sound
of other pilgrim groups singing and praying there. </div>
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Coming out of the new church, which was both museum and place of
worship, really prepared us for the first real devotional that we have
been able to have on our trip. We stood at an overlook that let us look
north into Gilead, where the tribes of Gad and half of Manasseh would
settle on the east side of the Jordan River (Reuben was to our south)
and especially westward, where the modern city of Jericho could almost
be seen through the haze. On a clear day one can even see the eastern
outskirts of Jerusalem high on the hills above.</div>
After
Roberto read from Deuteronomy 32, we talked about how this was a sacred place,
where Moses met the Lord. In that, it is a model for other sacred
mountains, which are themselves types of temples, places where we reach
up to heaven and God reaches down to us.<br />
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I prefaced my scripture reading and our singing by explaining that this
would be a model for our devotionals in Israel, explaining that I wanted
to talk about events, people, and places, explicating the biblical
stories and then comparing them to our religious walk today. I talked about the symbolism of wilderness wanderings being a type of our mortal probation and Moses' looking into the Promised Land representing out yearning for our heavenly home. We then sang verses 1-4 and 6 of "Redeemer of Israel," that last one being significant because it speaks of Jesus' glorious return.<br />
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We took our picture in front of the tall statue representing Moses' snake on a pull, which Jesus compared in John 3 to his being lifted up upon the cross. We then too two pictures, the first being a set picture and the second one of us "looking to Christ to live." I then asked for, and got, an "amen," not just from our group, but from some other interested bystanders</div>
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<b>Arriving in Tel Aviv</b></div>
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We then negotiated the long and sometimes stressful boarder crossing
between Jordan and the Israeli-controlled West Bank before driving up
towards Jerusalem. When we came through the Mount Scopus tunnel, I had "The Holy City" playing, an it was quite emotional as we caught out first glimpses of the BYU Center, the golden Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mout, and the rest of the city. We then drove around the city's northern outskirts, negotiating
rush hour traffic, and then driving on to Tel Aviv. Paul and I had
time to walk briskly from our hotel to Old Jaffa, where we met some
others of our group before heading back the hotel for our welcome
meeting. Diane Larsen, the owner of Cruise Lady, Tyler Griffin, the other "headliner," were there along with some 30+ new
friends who flew in to start the Israeli-phase of our trip. It is a bit
sad because half of my Jordan group will now be on the other bus, but
conversely I will have another 20 some people in mine.<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-64449935144488238602019-05-15T11:51:00.000-07:002019-05-15T13:37:49.189-07:00Jordan Day 2: Petra, Wadi Rum, and a Beduin Feast <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Petra</b><br />
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Today we started with what is, no doubt, the premier site in Jordan, the
fabulous ruins of the Nabatean city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra" target="_blank">Petra</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataeans" target="_blank">The Nabateans</a> were an
early Arab people who moved into much of the territory of the Old
Testament kingdom of Edom (the Edomites, in the Persian period, moved
into the southern part of OT Judah and became the Idumeans of the New
Testament). They expanded their territory east, south, and into the
Sinai and became incredibly wealthy in the first centuries before and
after Christ because of their acumen as merchants and in particular
because of their control of the spice trade.<br />
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They built their capital in a sunken valley surrounded by high mountains
that had only one way in and out, the narrow cleft valley known as the <i>Siq.</i> Approaching the <i>siq</i>
and in the valley itself are hundreds of tombs cut right into the rock
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Some free-standing tombs were known by later Beduin as Djinn Blocks because they thought desert spirits dwelt in them</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Nabateans were quite eclectic, borrowing motifs from many surrounding cultures. This tomb, for instance, incorporates and Mesopotamian motif of double stairways to heaven, allowing souls to ascend to their rewards.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A Nabatean inscription</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This tomb includes obelisks influenced by Egypt</i></td></tr>
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The <i>siq </i>is kind of a winding slot canyon, often quite narrow. Along the way there are water channels and small shrines that provided for both the physical and spiritual needs of visitors to the city. Then as the <i>siq </i>suddenly turns, a narrow view of the most famous of the rock cut tombs, the
so-called Treasury, appears. It is probably best known from its appearance in the Indiana Jones movie <i>The Last Crusade</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The entrance to the </i>siq<i></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The many tombs, monuments, and temples of ancient Petra</i></td></tr>
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Because we only had about 5 hours (not that much time for such a huge,
interesting site that requires a lot of walking and climbing), after we
did the usual introductory approach to the Treasury, we kind of hurried
through the city area, looking briefly at the theater cut into the hill,
the Great Temple, and the interesting Egyptian-influenced building now
called <i>Qasr-al-Bint</i> ("Palace of the Daughter," ostensibly built
for a daughter of a Pharaoh, though that is necessarily an anachronistic
and incorrect identification).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Qasr al-Bint</i></td></tr>
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<b>Wadi Rum</b>
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This desert valley was known as "The Valley of the Romans" (Arabic, <span dir="rtl" lang="ar">وادي رم</span>)
perhaps because many ascetic Byzantine monks (remember Byzantines =
Greek-speaking, Christian Romans) withdrew to isolated spots like this
to get away from the world and be with God. Because it is in so many
ways a quintessential Arabian desert, movies such as "Lawrence of
Arabia" and recently "The Martian" were filmed here.<br />
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We all piled into 4x4 pickup trucks and went on a mad drive through the sand. We stopped to look at interesting, <i>really</i>
an ancient carvings of the mysterious Thamudic culture (kind of like
the American Anastazi). We also stopped at a magnificent canyon lookout
that gave us a view of the vast Plains of Midian, which gave us a chance
to talk about the wanderings of the Children of Israel in the
wilderness.<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-49652503417668794872019-05-14T11:14:00.000-07:002019-05-18T12:54:37.024-07:00Jordan Day 1: Jabbok, Jerash, Shobak, and Little Petra<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We checked out of our hotel after breakfast and boarded the bus forour major site of the day, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #843c0c; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Jerash</span></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Israel and Palestine we will have three
buses, one with Tyler Griffin, one with me, and one with Scott and Maureen Proctor. Some from each group elected to join us on the Jordan pre-tour option, where we spend three days here before meeting the rest of our groups in Tel Aviv.<br />
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In Jordan and Israel, as in Turkey, Greece, and Italy, we
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</span>On this trip ours is a Jordanian named Roberto Massis, whom I worked with on a previous tour in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Jordan is often overlooked by pilgrims to the Holy Land, but we like to always tell our groups that it WAS part of the ancient Holy Land. Two and a half of the tribes of Israel settled in what is now Jordan, and even before that it was the site of the biblical kingdoms of Ammon, Moab, and Edom, who were all cousins of the Israelites. In the New Testament period, there were many Hellenized, or Greek-speaking, cities, and it was the site of the important Nabataean Kingdom headquartered in Petra (see tomorrow's post).</span></div>
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We start each day with a bus devotional, where a member of our group shares a scripture, shares a few thoughts about it, we sing, and then that volunteer offers our travel prayer. Today Doug Bodily spoke seeking Christ, and we sang "Teach Me to Walk in the Light." </div>
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<b>Brief Stop at the Jabbok River</b><br />
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On our way we stopped at a pull-off or rest stop on the banks of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarqa_River" target="_blank">Zarqa River</a>, which is the biblical Jabbok River. This is in a hilly, relatively rich agricultural area known anciently as Gilead, and the Jabbok formed the border between the tribe of Gad and half of the tribe of Manasseh. </div>
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This is where Jacob wrestled with the angel on
his way back to Canaan after having spent years working for his wives in Laban’s
service and fathering 11 or his 12 sons (and presumably his known daughter
Dinah).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read the account from Genesis
32:22–30 and discussed the sacred nature of his receiving the new name <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yisrael</i> and seeing the face of God and
how that compared to the purpose of our experience in the temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given his concern for his family and the
presumed nature of the blessings he sought, I extended it to our own making and
keeping of sacred covenants that allow us to be with our families forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This led us to sing, naturally, “Families Can
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>In the past I have been able to bring Elaine or my daughter Rachel on these trips, but this time I am driving with Paul Jennings, a friend from my mission to Thailand in 1985-86 who was later my college roommate.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Several of my friends from the Tabernacle Choir are on this tour. Natalie Blackwell and Cindy Swan are sopranos who retired from the Choir last year, and Brad Rickards is a tenor who is currently singing with me. Another, Margo Edwards, will be joining us in Tel Aviv.</i></td></tr>
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Soon after we arrived in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerash" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #843c0c; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Jerash</span></span></a>, and ancient site that was Hellenized under the
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Today that part of the ancient city of Gerasa that has been excavated
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After one walks through the commemorative gate and before reaching the main southern gate, which led into the city proper, one first comes upon the hippodrome, or chariot racing track that held up to 15,000 people.<br />
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Immediately after entering the southern gate is a large oval plaza from which the main streets of Gerasa radiated.<br />
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Above the plaza are the remains of a monumental temple to Zeus and a well-preserved theater, where we saw retired Jordanian military officers play the bagpipes (a holdover from the British period) and sang "Come, Come Ye Saints" to test the acoustics.<br />
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We then hiked around some of the remains of Gerasa, checking later Byzantine churches and the ancient temple of Artemis.<br />
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We ended our walking tour of ancient Gerasa on the colonnaded Cardo, or Main Street. <br />
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We had a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lot</i></b> of bus time after that, because
we drove back down to Amman and then a long way south along the desert highway
towards Petra.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am used to taking more
of the road following the ancient King’s Highway where there is time to talk
about more history and biblical connections (such as stopping at the Herodian
fortress-palace of Machaerus, where Antipas may have executed John the
Baptist).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am finding that because
this commercial tour is necessarily quicker than what we did with our JC
students (and, because as we will find tomorrow, we have other interesting
sites and activities, such as Wadi Rum), we cannot do it all.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Starting in Egypt, the King's Highway (red) crossed the Sinai to the Gulf of Aqaba and then went north through the biblical kingdoms of Edom, Moab, and Ammon, eventually reaching Damascus and then crossing northeast to Mesopotamia.</i></td></tr>
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Anyway, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Highway" target="_blank">the King's Highway</a> is certainly worth reading about. </div>
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We did follow some of its route, however, seeing the remains of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_(Crusader_castle)" target="_blank">the Crusader Castle of Montreal</a>, now known as Shobak Castle.<br />
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Before we arrived at our hotel outside of Petra, we first
stopped at a satellite Nabatean community called “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #843c0c; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Little Petra</span></b>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was a new site to me, but it gave our group a feel for what they
are going to see and experience on a magnificent scale tomorrow.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>One of the rock-cut tombs. We'll see many more of these in Petra proper tomorrow.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A triclinium, or three benched banquet hall. I used it as an opportunity to explain what the Last Supper would have been like.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Some of our group climbed up . . .</i></td></tr>
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We then checked into our hotel in the Jordanian town of Wadi Musa (which means "Valley of Moses") and will be the place from which we stage our visit to Petra tomorrow. The hotel is called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #843c0c; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #843C0C; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Beit Zaman</span></b>,
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-3042189181930585482019-01-03T14:12:00.000-08:002019-02-24T16:43:58.863-08:00Jerusalem, Day 3, and the End of Our Pilgrimage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Orson Hyde Gardens</b> <br />
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We started the last day of the tour in the Orson Hyde Garden, which was built to commemorate the dedicatory prayer of Elder Orson Hyde, an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (to read, and hear, about him, his prayer, and this site, go to <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2011/10/orson-hyde-memorial-gardens.html" target="_blank">this blog entry</a>).<br />
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It was a cold, windy day, so we huddled together in the outdoor theater for our devotional. Because we do not know exactly where on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Olives" target="_blank">the Mount of Olives</a> Jesus' experience in Gethsemane took place, and because we had this beautiful setting completely to ourselves, this is where we chose to hold our meeting. Aimee Muir offered our opening prayer, after which I taught about Gethsemane from Luke 22, Mosiah 3, Alma 7, and D&C 19, describing Jesus' experience as an “atoning journey.” We then sang “Reverently and Meekly Now,” after which I had Eli and Jace Wright consecrate the two bottles of olive oil. Steve Nelson then offered our closing prayer.<br />
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<b>The Basilica of the Agony and the Traditional Site of Gethsemane</b><br />
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We then walked down the steep hill past the golden domed Russian Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene (which was unfortunately closed, but which <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-morning-of-marys-aternate-gethsemane.html" target="_blank">you can read about here</a>) to the Basilica of the Agony, which is also called the Church of All Nations.<br />
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In the gardens to its north are some <i>very </i>old olive trees that give us a feel for what the Garden of Gethsemane would have looked like when Jesus visited it.<br />
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Here is a video of me reading the Gethsemane story from Luke 22 to my children back in 2011:<br />
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The current church replaced a destroyed Crusader Church, which was built over an earlier Byzantine church (which we have found is often the pattern in the Holy Land). All three featured an exposed rock by the altar that is believed to be where Jesus prayed the last night of his mortal life.<br />
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<b>The BYU Jerusalem Center</b><br />
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Rami next drove us up to <a href="https://jerusalemcenter.ce.byu.edu/" target="_blank">the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Ancient Near Eastern Studies</a>, which is on Mount Scopus just north and a little west of the Mount of Olives. this was our family's home for one year, August 2011-August 2012. After watching the orientation video, the group went into the Auditorium with its spectacular views of the Old City. They were treated to an organ concert by Jan Clayton, though I do not have pictures of this because Elaine and I were excitedly visiting with the center director and other old friends. But these are the pictures I have:<br />
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Rami drove us back to the Old City, where we once again entered through the Dung Gate, passed through security, and entered the Western Wall Plaza. This used to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Quarter" target="_blank">the Mughrabi Quarter</a>,<b> </b>inhabited by Arabs originally from North Africa. Before 1948, Jewish worshipers who wanted to get as close to the temple as they could, needed to access a single stretch of exposed retaining wall in a narrow alley. In those days it was often called "The Wailing Wall."<br />
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After the Israelis gained control of the Old City in 1967, the Mughrabi Quarter was demolished, and the large plaza that replaced it has opened up the Western Wall as a sacred space for thousands of worshipers.<br />
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Rami drove us back to the Old City, where we once again entered through the Dung Gate. Salah and I explained the excavations around the southwest corner and southern side of the Temple Mount, where the massive Herodian ashlars of the retaining walls are in plain view, as are many stones that the Romans pushed off the top of the mount when the temple was destroyed in A.D. 70.<br />
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On the remains of the steps below the Huldah Gates, we sang “We Love Thy House, O Lord.” This is an area where one can actually say, "I walked today where Jesus walked," because this is the way Jesus and the apostles, like other Jewish pilgrims, would have entered the House of God.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The arch of one of partially exposed Double Gate that led into the Temple Courts</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The now closed Triple Gate leading into the Temple Courts</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Our group on the temple steps</i></td></tr>
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<b>Gordon's Calvary and the Garden Tomb</b><br />
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After time off for lunch in the Jewish Quarter and a little time for shopping and individual sight-seeing in the Old City, Rami drove us to our final destination.<br />
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As British and other European Protestants increasingly came on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the nineteenth century, the often found the Holy Sepulchre and the Greek, Roman, and Armenians rites celebrated there to unfamiliar and even off-putting. In 1883, a visiting British general named Charles Gordon became interested in a rocky escarpment north of the Old City not far from the Damascus Gate. It was close to the spot where tradition held that Stephen had been stoned to death (see Acts 7:54-50), and Gordon wondered whether this might also have been a place where crucifixions took place. In fact the rocky cliff face looked much like a skull, which was the meaning of "Golgotha." When an ancient tomb was discovered nearby, he wondered whether he had found not only the actual place of the Crucifixion but the site of Jesus's burial as well.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_Tomb" target="_blank">The Garden Tomb Association</a> was organized to purchase, develop, and maintain the site, and it is now a lovely venue to recall the suffering, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. For this reason it is preferred by some Protestants and many, if not most, Latter-day Saints. In my 2011 book on Holy Week entitled <i>God So Loved the World</i>, I wrote this about the differences between the Holy Sepulchre and the Garden Tomb:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
identification of the Garden Tomb is not without its own problems.
Archaeologists have dated the tomb
itself to the seventh century before Christ, much too early to have been the
“new tomb” described by the
Gospels. Although it is possible that earlier tombs might have been adapted and
reused in later periods, this
unlikelihood, together with the lack of any earlier local traditions about the
site, makes it uncertain that the
Garden Tomb could actually have been the tomb where Jesus’ body was laid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nevertheless,
in many ways the Garden Tomb provides an attractive alternative to the Church
of the Holy
Sepulchre because it provides a place that some Protestants and Latter-day
Saints find more conducive to reading,
praying, and quietly reflecting on the miracle of the Resurrection. In
addition, two LDS Church presidents,
Harold B. Lee and Spencer W. Kimball, felt strongly about the location when
they visited it. Perhaps one way of
understanding the seemingly conflicting suggestions of archaeology and
tradition on the one hand and
sentiment and inspiration on the other is to remember that, in the end, we
commemorate events, not places. The
essential point is that we celebrate the truth that on that first Easter
morning, Jesus came forth from a tomb
in a garden where his body had lain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have found
that I feel the Spirit in both places but for different reasons. In the
traditional site, at the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre, I am stirred by the visible devotion of countless pilgrims
who come there to honor the
crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord. Over the course of two millennia,
their faith has made that site sacred.
But near the Garden Tomb I am better able to imagine and relive, in a sense,
what that first Easter was like.
And I draw inspiration from the words of President Gordon B. Hinckley, who
said, “Just outside the walls of
Jerusalem, in this place or somewhere nearby was the tomb of Joseph of
Arimathea, where the body of the Lord
was interred.” (<i>God So Loved the World</i>, 101)</span></div>
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The Garden Tomb Association provided us with a nice, Protestant Irishman as our guide. He let us sing “Upon the Hill of Calvary” at Skull Hill. <br />
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After he left us for our devotional, I asked Drake Jennings to pray before we sang, “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today.” I then taught from Luke 24, John 20, and D&C 76 before we sang “He Is Risen.” Brigette Wright offered our prayer before the group had time to go up to the tomb.<br />
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<i><b>It was a wonderful way to end our pilgrimage.</b></i><br />
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Salah and Rami then took us to Christmas Hotel in East Jerusalem for our Farewell Dinner, and what a farewell it was. For just over a week we shared meals, bus rides, historical discussions, fun, and spiritual experiences. It was a wonderful group, and I enjoyed each person in it. It was hard to say good bye.<br />
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God be with you, until we meet again.<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0Jerusalem, Israel31.768319 35.21370999999999231.552388 34.89098649999999 31.984250000000003 35.536433499999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-90865664533025551492019-01-02T16:07:00.000-08:002019-02-25T18:25:07.826-08:00Jerusalem, Day 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b> The Temple Mount or "Noble Sanctuary"<i><br /></i></b><br />
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We started Wednesday by having Rami drive us around to the Dung Gate, which is the southern gate of the Old City closest to the Western Wall and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount" target="_blank">the Temple Mount</a>. After passing through security, we went up a rickety wooden bridge that gave us access to the Mughrabi, or "Moroccan," Gate, which is the only one by which non-Muslims can access the top of the Temple Mount, which our Muslim friends call <i>al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf</i> or "The Noble Sanctuary."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Dung Gate, by which one accesses both the Western Wall and the Temple Mount</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Mughrabi Bridge and Gate, which is the only way non-Muslims can enter the Haram as-Sharif</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The rickety bridge overlooks the women's worship area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Wall_Plaza" target="_blank">the Western Wall Plaza</a></i></td></tr>
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After the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in A.D. 70, the Temple Mount platform remained empty, except for a possible Temple of Jupiter that Hadrian might have built there after A.D. 135. But by the Byzantine Period, which is the Greek-speaking, Christian, Roman period, it was left abandoned and had become a garbage dump, because the Christians thought that left it as proof of Jesus' prophecy that one stone would stand upon another.<br />
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When the Muslim Arabs conquered Jerusalem in A.D. 638, Omar, the second caliph, cleansed the area, and it became the third most holy place in Islam, after Mecca and Medina. They saw it as the "farthest sanctuary," where the prophet Muhammad was believed to have ascended into heaven and where he prayed with all the prophets before him, and Omar built a small mosque, which later was replaced with the current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque" target="_blank">Al-Aqsa Mosque</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>First view of Al Aqsa as we entered the precinct</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Looking at the main entrance of Al Aqsa</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Only Muslims can enter Al Aqsa, but our local guide, Salah, took these pictures for us</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The </i>miḥrāb<i><i><i lang="ar-Latn" title="Arabic-language transliteration">, or prayer niche showing the direction of Mecca, and the </i></i></i>minbar<i><i><i lang="ar-Latn" title="Arabic-language transliteration">, or pulpit, from which the Friday sermon is preached.</i></i></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The paved area of the Haram as-Sharif covers the same area as the Second Temple Court of the Gentiles</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The back of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_(Jerusalem)" target="_blank">the Golden Gate</a>, now sealed, on the east central side of the mount</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Golden Gate, which was built in either the late Byzantine or early Umayyid Period, was probably built on the site of the Shushan Gate, that opened directly into the temple courts. According to Jewish tradition, the </i>Shekinah<i> or presence of God, entered and left the temple through this gate, and one Christian tradition is that Jesus entered here on Palm Sunday. Some traditions also claim that either the Jewish Messiah, or Elijah, as the precursor of the Messiah, will return through this gate. In Muslim tradition, one side of this double gate is the Gate of Repentance and the other the Gate of Mercy. An Ottoman cemetery in front of it ostensibly would keep Elijah, the Messiah, or any false Messiah from entering.</i></td></tr>
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First we went to the site of the Pool of Bethesda, which in Jesus' time was a double pool, probably used for ritual purification for those who wanted to enter the temple (the upper pool probably emptied into the lower, fulfilling the requirements for "living water" that could be used in a <i>miqweh </i>bath). There was also a tradition that those with infirmities who entered it "upon the moving of the waters" could be healed, a tradition that persisted into the Roman period, when it became the site of a temple to Ascelepius, the god of healing.</div>
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We then walked along the traditional Via Dolorosa, which, since the eighteenth century, has started at the site of the Antonia Fortress and follows various stations of the cross in the Muslim and Christian Quarters until it comes to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. You can read my more detailed description of it <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2011/12/sunday-in-old-city.html" target="_blank">when I brought my mother and niece to Jerusalem in December of 2011 here</a>.</div>
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The Pool of Bethesda, St. Anne's, and much of the Via Dolorosa actually lies in what is commonly called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Quarter" target="_blank">the Muslim Quarter</a>, but one will find mosques, churches, and settlements in all of the various quarters of Jerusalem. </div>
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Our next stop was the traditional site of the Crucifixion, Burial, and Resurrection, all of which have been contained through the years in different versions of a sprawling church complex. Because of so many changes to the site with each new phase of construction, it is very difficult to imagine what the place of crucifixion and the nearby tomb might have looked like, but a series of artist's renditions can help us envision the developments.</div>
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As early as the First Temple Period, there was a quarry well outside of the city walls. By the Second Temple Period, this quarry was no longer used, but it still lay just outside of the Herodian City walls at the time of Jesus. Near one of the main gates and on the road to Joppa, it was used as a place of execution, and the sides of the quarry walls provided ready-made sites to excavate tombs.</div>
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After the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, except for a legionary camp, the entire city lay empty until the emperor Hadrian decided to build a new Roman city called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelia_Capitolina" target="_blank">Aelia Capitolina</a> on the site. Part of claiming the entire site for the new pagan city was appropriating earlier sacred sites. For instance, a temple to Jupiter is believed to have been built on top of the Temple Mount, and, because the quarry site seems to have been important to local Christians, it was filled in and a temple of Venus was built there.</div>
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The original Holy Sepulche complex was destroyed by the mad Fatimid caliph al-Hakim in A.D. 1009. Although the Byzantine emperor no longer controlled the Holy Land, he paid to have it partially rebuilt, and this new, smaller structure was finished with a complicated floor plan by the Crusaders.<br />
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The net result is that the site has much in terms of archaeology and tradition to recommend it, but the confusing floor and worship patterns unfamiliar to some Protestants and many Latter-day Saints make it difficult to identify with the site. Still, it is important to come here, and the faith of millions of Christians over almost two millennia has made it truly sacred. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The rock of Golgotha has been largely covered over with Latin and Greek altars that now sit on top of it. But a Chapel of Adam under it has a window behind its altar that shows a piece of the rock.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The crack in the rock supposedly was formed by the cross being driven into it. According to a legend (better, an allegory), Adam had been buried on this site, so the first to benefit from the saving blood of Christ was Adam when the blood flowed down this crack.</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Aedicule under the Rotunda is said to contain the remains of the tomb of Christ</i></td></tr>
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After lunch we walked through the Jewish Quarter, which had been largely destroyed during the Jordanian occupation of 1948-1967. After Israel seized the Old City after the Six Days War, it was rebuilt, but the previous destruction provided an opportunity for archaeology. Before new building were built and some old buildings, like the famous Hurva Synagogue, were rebuilt, archaeologists were allowed to work, and their efforts uncovered some amazing finds.</div>
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First we saw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Wall_(Jerusalem)" target="_blank">the Broad Wall</a>, which was part of Hezekiah's expansion of Jerusalem on the Western Hill in the First Temple. It was populated largely with refugees from the northern tribes who had fled to Judah's capital when Israel fell to the Assyrians (because the Book of Mormon record maintains that Lehi and Laban were from the tribe of Mannaseh and Joseph Smith is reported to have taught that Sariah and Ishmael were from Ephraim, then these early Book of Mormon families may have lived in this very area.</div>
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Although we did not see them, palatial mansions of chief priestly families and other aristocrats have also been uncovered in this area (you can see two of my earlier visits and discussions some of these sites <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2011/10/date-to-jewish-quarter.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2012/04/herodian-jerusalem.html" target="_blank">here</a>). We did see, however, some of the excavated Cardo, which was one of the main streets of Roman and then Byzantine Jerusalem.</div>
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The Byzantines had built a large church called "Holy Sion" on the site that they believed was the place of the Last Supper (the Syrians have another site, St. Mark's, in the Armenian Quarter; for it, <a href="http://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.com/2012/07/christian-jerusalem.html" target="_blank">go to this blog entry and scroll down to "St. Mark's"</a>). When that building was destroyed, the Crusader's built a later building now called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle" target="_blank">the Cenacle</a> (which means "the dinner place"). Before we entered this small, usually crowded upper room, we first gathered in a place of the side of the street that I often find more conducive for devotionals than the site itself. Here I talked about the Last Supper and the institution of the sacrament in 1 Cor 11 and Mark 14. We sang “While of These Emblems, We Partake” before taking them up to the Cenacle. </div>
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The other church we went to on Mount Zion was St. Peter's in Galicantu, built, many believe, on the site of palace of the high priest Caiaphas. Not only does it commemorate the Denial of Peter (hence the name, "St. Peter of the Cock's Crow"), its lowest levels contain the remains of a first century dungeon where Jesus might have been held.</div>
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We walked out the back amid the remains of the first century palace and talked about the Denial of Peter and how, like him, we fail but we can also be redeemed. We then took a picture by some first century stairs that might have been the ones by which Jesus was brought up from the Qidron Valley after his arrest.</div>
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We got on the bus at St. Peter's, and Rami drove us up on to the Mount of Olives, where we took a group pictures from the lookout point in front of Seven Arches Hotel, which has one of the best views of the Old City.</div>
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We checked out of the Jericho Resort Hotel very early and then drove up to Bethlehem, taking the back way through Al-Azaria (Bethany) on the east side of the Mount of Olives to avoid Jerusalem traffic. We then crossed out of Israel proper into the Palestinian Territories.<br />
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At <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Sahour" target="_blank">Bayit Sahur</a>, a neighboring village to Bethlehem, we went through t<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Shepherd%27s_Field" target="_blank">he traditional Catholic Shepherds Field</a>, visiting two of the caves first and singing a few Christmas carols. We then took up a teaching/worship station overlooking the valley north of Bethlehem, where I read Luke 2:8–18, discussed it quite a bit, and then led us in singing “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night,” “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” and “Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful.”<br />
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After visiting Tabash, one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem" target="_blank">Bethlehem</a> megashops, where local Christians sell olive woods and jewelry, we went to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity" target="_blank">the Basilica of the Nativity</a>. The traditional site of Jesus' birth was identified by Empress Helena, Constantine's mother. Local Christians identified a grotto, or cave, where tradition held the Nativity had taken place. Constantine had a large basilica built over the site between A.D. 333-339, and originally it had an opening in the main hall so that worshipers could look down on the site. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian replaced the original church in A.D. 565 with an even larger basilica. In this building, the grotto was covered and is now accessed by steps under the altar. This church was almost destroyed during the Persian invasion of A.D. 614, but according to legend, the Persians stopped when they saw a depiction of the three Magi, who were dressed as Persians, carved on the front of the church.<br />
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The church was renovated by the Crusaders, who made the front door much smaller. While the main altar is owned by the Greek Orthodox, rights to the grotto are shared with the Armenians, who have their own altar in one of the transepts, and the Roman Catholics.<br />
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The current grotto has been so altered and covered in cloths and ornaments that the original cave cannot really be seen. Entrance is by narrow stairs, and it is very crowded.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A 14-pointed star (representing the 3 sets of 14 generations in the genealogy of Matthew 1) marks the traditional spot of Jesus' birth</i></td></tr>
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Next to the Basilica of the Nativity is the Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine. A newer, more open church. From it one can access another set of caves known as St. Jerome's Grotto. Jerome was a Roman Catholic saint who moved to Bethlehem to translate the Bible into Latin. To do this, he wanted to be as close to the birthplace of the Word Made Flesh as he translated his word. This grotto, and some other caves, are part of the same cave system as the Grotto under the Nativity Church. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The cave system under the Nativity Church and St. Catherine's. The Nativity Grotto is no. 1, and St. Jerome's Grotto is nos. 5 and 10.</i></td></tr>
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Because any of them are just as likely to have been the place where Mary and Joseph sheltered that first Christmas Eve, and because they are not as cluttered with ornamentation, lamps, and hangings, I usually take my groups there to have our Christmas devotional. Unfortunately, when we were there this time, a service was being held in them, and we were not able to go down into them, so I promised this group that I would post pictures from previous trips so they could see what it was like.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This and the next few pictures from St. Jerome's Grotto come from previous tours in 2014 and 2017.</i></td></tr>
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Coming out of St. Catherine's, we took a group picture in the courtyard and then got some pictures of Manger Square all decorated for Christmas.<br />
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The last thing we did in Bethlehem was have a fantastic lunch at the "Tent Restaurant," where we had traditional Palestinian "mixed grill."<br />
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Crossing back into Israel, Rami drove us to the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Karem" target="_blank">`Ein Kerem</a> on the west side of Jerusalem. It is in the "hill country of Judah" and is the traditional site of the home of Zacharias and Elisabeth. As well as a church commemorating the birth of their son John the Baptist, which has plaques with Zacharias' inspired canticle the <i>Benedictus</i> (Luke 1:67-79) in its courtyard, it has a beautiful church commemorating the Visitation, when Mary came to visit and stay with her relative Elisabeth. Upon their meeting, the yet unborn John leaped in Elisabeth's womb, and Elisabeth was inspired to recognized Mary as "the mother of my Lord." Mary then sang the canticle the <i>Magnificat</i>. We asked out one mother-daughter pair, Stacy and Kelsey Jennings, to read the respective lines of these two women from Luke 1:40-55.<br />
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<i>Stacy and Kelsey Jennings read the parts of Elisabeth and Mary from Luke 1:39-55.</i></div>
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-59383394615862489982018-12-31T06:51:00.000-08:002019-02-24T15:33:18.742-08:00The Jordan River and the Dead Sea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On December 31, we used our hotel in Jericho for our visits to important sites at the Dead Sea and finally on the Jordan River that feeds into it. We then drove up to Jerusalem for a brief visit to the olive wood shop, though our real visits to Jerusalem still lay ahead.<br />
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The site was later held by Jewish rebels, and it was the last place they held after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. The Romans built a large siege ramp up the western side of the plateau, but the zealots committed suicide before the Romans broke through.<br />
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<b>The Baptismal Site of Jesus</b><br />
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We ended our day by driving to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasr_el_Yahud" target="_blank">Qasr al-Yahud</a>,
the Israeli-controlled Palestinian side of the traditional baptismal
site (an older site is maintained by Jordan on the east side of the
river). <br />
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We had a very special devotional at or
near the place of Jesus' baptism. I talked about Joshua and Elijah
before moving to the baptism of Jesus, reading from Mark 1 and Matthew 3
and then bringing in 2 Nephi 31. We sang the children’s song baptism,
after which I offered a prayer<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Because it is winter and rainy season, the river at the baptismal site was about as high as I ever saw it</i></td></tr>
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<b>Jimmy's Bazaar</b><br />
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We ended our day by a trip to Jimmy's olive wood shop in East Jerusalem. This quick trip was our first "visit" to Jerusalem, although we did not stop to see any historical site at that time. I played the Tabernacle Choir's version of "The Holy City" as we dove up to Jerusalem and through the tunnel in Mount Scopus, which have us our first views of the BYU Jerusalem Center, the Dome of the Rock, and some of the Old City. The couple of pictures I took through the bus windows are not particularly good but might remind some of our group of the excitement of those first views of Jerusalem.<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-76762477201659495812018-12-30T20:05:00.000-08:002019-05-27T13:31:42.577-07:00Galilee and Northern Israel, Day 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Magdala</b><br />
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We began our second day in Galilee at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdala" target="_blank">Magdala</a>. Situated where the Via Maris exited the Valley of the Doves at the Sea of Galilee, Magdala was ideally situated to be a commercial center. Known in Greek as <i>Tarichae</i>a<i>, </i>it took its name from the word meaning "pickled fish," because this is where much of the fishing industry of the Sea of Galilee processed its fish by salting, drying, and pickling. We had a tour of the site by a sweet Mexican volunteer, who showed us the archaeology of the site, especially the first century synagogue, where Jesus almost definitely visited and where he probably read, worship, and preached.<br />
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Magdala's most famous citizen, of course, was Mary Magdalene. When we got to the Christian Spirituality Center, I asked for permission to have our devotional in the <i>Pro Dignitate Mulierum </i>rotunda, which has columns with the names of all the women in Jesus’ ministry. I read Luke 8:1–3 and talked about the importance of Jesus’ women disciples and then had the sisters in our group sing “As Sisters in Zion.” It was nice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Column honoring Mary Magdalene. There are other columns for each of the women in Jesus' ministry.</i></td></tr>
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We then went downstairs to the chapel that is designed to look like the first century synagogue. It features a lovely mural of the women with the issue of blood as she reached out to touch the hem of Jesus’ robe. There our guide bore lovely “testimony” of how Jesus heals us today.<br />
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Our next stop was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Primacy_of_Saint_Peter" target="_blank">St. Peter’s Primacy</a>, the traditional site of the appearance of the Risen Lord to seven disciples on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. I read and taught from John 21, after which we sang “My Redeemer Lives.” The site takes its name from Jesus commission of Peter to "feed his sheep." After the usual pictures next to, and some wading in, the Sea of Galilee, we looked into the small chapel that features the mensa Christi, or "meal of Christ," rock which is said to be where Jesus fed the disciples.<br />
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Our next stop was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum" target="_blank">Capernaum</a>, which was the headquarters of Jesus' Galilean ministry. When Jesus came to it, it was the headquarters of the fishing operations of both Peter and Andrew and of Zebedee and his two sons, James and John. It became so closely associated with Jesus that Matthew 9:1 calls it "his own city."<br />
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There I read from Mark 1 and talked about the miracles that Jesus performed there. We then sang “Our Savior’s Love.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Diagram of the first century house identified as being that of Peter and the churches that have been built over it since</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Remains of the Byzantine octagonal church built over the House of Peter. </i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A modern church has built straddling and over the House of Peter</i></td></tr>
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We left the Capernaum dock for the traditional boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. <br />
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When we stopped mid-lake, I read Mark 4:35–41 and also recounted “<a href="http://erichuntsman.com/papers/Our%20Galilee%20Miracle,%20Miracles%20of%20Jesus%20139-143.pdf" target="_blank">Our Galilee Miracle</a>” story about Samuel. The pictures below are from our 2012 experience on that Galilee boat ride. After I told that story and bore my testimony, we sang “Master the
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Both Elaine and I had flashbacks at the `En Gev fish restaurant! We always brought our students here when we were posted at the Jerusalem Center 2011-2012.<br />
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<b>Beit She'an/Scythopolis</b><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_She%27an#Biblical_narrative" target="_blank">Beit She'an</a> was an important Old Testament site where the Jezreel Valley meets the Jordan River Valley near Mount Gilboa. Before the Israelites, it was a Canaanite city which the Egyptians had controlled (some of their remains are on top of the tel, or high archaeological mound that some of our group climbed. It later became an important Greek city named Scythopolis in the Hellenistic Period until it was destroyed by the Jewish Hasmonean family that ruled the Holy Land after the Maccabean Revolt.<br />
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The Romans refounded the city after Pompey's invasion in A.D. 63. As a reestablished Greek city, it was separated from Jewish territories and was part of the Decapolis, a league of ten Hellenized cities. Still, its importance on the routes through the Jezreel and Jordan valleys make it likely that Joseph and Mary would have gone through here on their way to Bethlehem, and Jesus probably passed through it frequently as well.<br />
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Most of the remains below the tel are from the Roman period, and the straight streets flanked by colonnades, the baths, theater, and other public buildings are some of the best preserved in the Near East. It remained important in the Byzantine (Greek-speaking, Christian Roman) Period and the early Islamic Period, but it was destroyed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/749_Galilee_earthquake" target="_blank">the great earthquake of A.D. 749</a> and not rebuilt.<br />
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When we got the Beit She’an, it was the first time that I had visited the site of Greco-Roman Scythopolis when it was not beastly hot, which made it the most pleasant visit that I have had there.<br />
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We drove from Bet She'an to Jericho, where we checked in to the Jericho Resort Hotel, where we stayed the next two nights.</div>
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<b>Valley of the Doves</b><br />
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We started our first day in Galilee with a devotional and walk in Wadi Hamam, or "The Valley of the Doves." Under the cliffs of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Arbel" target="_blank">Mount Arbel</a>, this valley marks the route of the branch of the old V<i>ia Maris</i>, or "Way of the Sea" that led from the coast inland towards Damascus and eventually to Mesopotamia. Because it passed near Nazareth on its way to the Sea of Galilee, this was doubtlessly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Trail" target="_blank">the route that Jesus would have taken</a> as he walked from his home town to the Sea of Galilee, where so much of his mortal mission took place.<br />
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At the mouth of the Valley of the Doves we read Matthew 4:18–20, sang “Come, Follow Me,” and offered a prayer before we walked up the trail in silence so that our group had time for meditation, thought, and their own prayers.<br />
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<b>Church of the Multiplication</b><br />
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Rami then drove us to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabgha" target="_blank">Tabgha</a>, where we gathered for our devotional in the atrium of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Multiplication" target="_blank">Church of the Multiplication</a>. Read Mark 6:41–44, mentioned parts of the Bread of Life Discourse from John 6, and read 3 Nephi 20:8–9 before singing “Bless Our Fast, We Pray,” which has lines about feeding our souls and filling our hearts.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Church of the Multiplication</i></td></tr>
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<b>Mount of Beatitudes</b><br />
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After visiting the church, we continued on to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_of_Beatitudes" target="_blank">the Mount of Beatitudes</a>, which is always one of my favorites. We read Matthew 5:1–12, talked a bit about the intent of the overall Sermon on the Mount, and then read Matthew 5:48, offering a control on unintended and unhelpful perfectionism. Sang “More Holiness Give Me.” We then had some time on the lovely grounds.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banias" target="_blank"><b>Banias</b></a><br />
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We then made the long drive to Caesarea Philippi, where the water at Banias Falls and at the site itself was higher and flowing more strongly than I have ever seen it before. All the water, and the greenery of the winter season, were another difference of this winter season tour.<br />
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At <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Philippi" target="_blank">Caesarea Philippi</a> itself, we talked about Peter’s Confession in Mark 8:27–30 and Matthew 16:13–20 and sang “I believe in Christ." One of the three headwaters of the Jordan River actually emerges from a cave just above the classical site, which in Jesus' time was the capital of the tetrarchy of Herod's son Philip. In the Hellenistic Period a sanctuary to the nature god Pan had been built here, which is still recalled in the Arabic name for the site, <i>Banias</i>. Herod had also built a temple to Augustus here, and all this paganism puts the declaration of Jesus in a different context. Here was the true Son of God.<br />
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It later was the capital of a small kingdom given to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Agrippa_II" target="_blank">Agrippa II</a>, a great grandson of Herod the Great and the son of Agrippa I. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The site of Caesarea Philippi, with one of the three headwaters of the Jordan River</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Our group in front of the cave sacred to Pan</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Artist's depiction of Caesarea Philipppi in the Roman Period</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The cave sacred to Pan was seen as one of the entrances to the Underworld, which gave Jesus' statement about the "gates of hell" not prevailing some new meaning</i></td></tr>
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Sala showed us parts of the site I have never seen before, such as the Roman bridge, the nineteenth century flour mill of the now destroyed Syrian village of Banias.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Herod Agrippa II was the great grandson of Herod, who inherited the old tetrarchy of Philip and remained loyal to Rome during the great Jewish Revolt of A.D. 66-72</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Above and below: Remains of the palace of Agrippa II</i></td></tr>
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<b>Mount Bental</b><br />
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We then drove to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Bental/Tal_Al-Gharam" target="_blank">Har Bental</a> but could not see anything because of clouds and mist. That notwithstanding, we really were blessed: while it rained through the day, it always seemed to slow or even stop when we were at the important sites.<br />
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Came back to the hotel, had dinner, and then ran our devotional in lieu of a Sabbath sacrament meeting. We sang “Come, We That Love the Lord,” after which Sister Belnap prayed. I introduced the theme of coming to Christ with Moroni 10:32–33 and then Elaine spoke quite effectively, and movingly, about coming to know her Savior despite cynicism. I then talked about coming to Christ through the scriptures, recounting my conversion to the Book of Mormon through 2 Nephi 33:10–11; through ordinances, reading the sacrament prayers and sharing the story of the first time Samuel passed the sacrament; and through revelation, citing the confession of Peter, the Beloved Disciple’s recognition of the Risen Lord in John 21, and the promise of D&C 88:66. We then sang “Come unto Jesus” and Brother Strong prayed. </div>
Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-48666170287094566432018-12-28T13:14:00.000-08:002019-02-24T15:30:21.629-08:00December 28: Caesarea Maritima, Mount Carmel, Megiddo, and Nazareth.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We got a bit of a late start Friday morning, December 28, because Salah and our bus driver, Rami, had a difficult time with the traffic coming down from Jerusalem. But we quickly loaded on our bus and had our first devotional reading Psalm 145:8–9, 17–20 and singing (I seem to recall) “Precious Savior, Dear Redeemer.”<br />
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<b>Caesarea Maritima</b> <br />
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As we drove to our first site, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Maritima" target="_blank">Caesarea Maritima</a>, up the coast, we talked about some of the events that had happened in Jaffa just south of Tel Aviv, the ill-dated trip of Jonah and especially the vision of Peter regarding the Gentiles from Acts 10:9-18.After that vision, Peter was summoned to Caesarea, which was then the capital of the Roman province of Judea. There he preached to, converted, and baptized the centurion Cornelius and his household (Acts 10:24-48).<br />
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Caesarea was built by Herod the Great as the main port of his kingdom, which was a client state of the Romans at the time. He built it as a great Greek and Roman-style city where he could enjoy "Gentile" culture when he wanted to get away from the Jewish strictures of Jerusalem. After serving as the Roman capital after the death of Herod and the deposition of his son, Herod Archealus, it later became the capital of the "Byzantine," or Greek-speaking, Christian, late Roman Judea. Later it was captured by the Arabs, held by the Crusaders, and destroyed by the Mamluks.<br />
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Much of this history was reviewed in a video presentation that our group sat through before Salah and I took them to the Roman theater, where a grandson of Herod the Great, Agrippa II, had been struck dead by the Lord (see Acts 12:20-23)<br />
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Next we walked down to the remains of Herod's palace, which was built on a jetty out into the Mediterranean so that it had sea views on three sides. When Judea was a province, this palace served as the headquarters of the Roman governor, so we held our main devotional in the place of the judgment hall of the Palace of Herod, talking about the trial of Paul before Festus and Agrippa II (see Acts 25-26) and singing “I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go, Dear Lord.”<br />
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Next we quickly walked through some of the other ruins at Caesarea, such as the hippodrome or horsetrack (which was wet and full of puddles).<br />
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As we drove out of Caesarea, we stopped at the ruins of the aqueducts that Herod had built to bring water to his city from Mount Carmel in the north.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Catching a little wintry beach time with Elaine</i></td></tr>
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We then drove up to Mount Carmel, which overlooks the sea and the great port city of Haifa on one side and the Jezreel Valley on the other. This was the site of Elijah's legendary context with the priests of Ba'al as recounted in 1 Kings 18, which is commemorated at the Monastery of Muhraqa, which means "place of the burning" in Arabic. It was . It was drizzling at Muraqah, so we sang, “Who’s On the Lord’s Side, Who?” and then went right up on the roof of the monastery but could not see much of the Jezreel Valley through the haze.<br />
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People do not usually expect the Holy Land as being cool, even cold, and rainy, but that is what winters are like there. I often joke that no one imagines Moses or Jesus shivering and wet in their robes, but it probably happened (see John 10: 10:22-23).<br />
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From Muhraqa, we drove to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze" target="_blank">Druze </a>village of<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Daliyat al-Karmel, where we had a lunch of falafel and schnitzel.</span><br />
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<b>Megiddo</b><br />
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The wide Jezreel Valley is one of the most fertile parts of Israel, ancient and modern. It separates the hills and mountains of Samaria to the south from the hills of Galilee to the north, and it also connects the coast with the Jordan Valley inland. As a result, it forms an important crossroads, and almost every invasion of the the Holy Land in antiquity came through it.<br />
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To control this strategic area, ancient Canaanites built a massive fortress city at a place called Megiddo. King Solomon of the united kingdom and later Omri and Ahab of the northern kingdom rebuilt Megiddo as an important fortress. It is also mentioned in prophecies, such as Revelation 16:14-21 where the Hebrew <i>Har Megiddo</i>, or "Mount of Megiddo," is incorrectly rendered in Greek as <i>Armageddon</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The "tel" or archaeological mound of Megiddo. Look how green Israel and Palestine are in the winter!</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The view of the Jezreel Valley from Megiddo</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Remains of ancient Megiddo</i></td></tr>
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For an ancient city or fortress, there were a few things a site needed: a defensive location, a water source, and trade. Megiddo had all three. The water source, which was originally a spring outside the walls, was brought within the defensive works through a deep shaft, stairs, and a tunnel.<br />
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<b>Nazareth</b><br />
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We then drove to the modern Israeli-Arab city of Nazareth. Because the sun sets so much earlier in the Winter, we needed to switch up the order of the sites we visited, stopping first at Mount Precipice, which by tradition is where the people of Nazareth tried to throw Jesus down after he angered them in their synagogue (see Luke 4:28-30). Looking at Mount Tabor across the valley, we talked about the Transfiguration and sang “Jehovah, Lord of Heaven and Earth.”<br />
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We then drove into Nazareth, which is the largest Israeli-Arab city in the country. Like Bethlehem, it was historically a Christian majority town, but the displacement of so many Palestinians after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus" target="_blank">the <i>Nakbah </i>(Arabic, "disaster") of 1948</a> changed its demographics, and there are now many Muslims resident. Still, the large Christian population meant that there were still a lot of Christmas decorations up!<br />
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In the city of Nazareth itself, we went first to the Greek Catholic “Synagogue Church,” which is supposedly built over the site of the original synagogue of Jesus' time. There we recalled the account of Jesus in the synagogue from Luke 4:16-27 and sang, quite movingly, “Jesus of Nazareth.”<br />
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Went to the Basilica of the Annunciation, where I first recounted the annunciation to Mary in Luke 1 and then read from 1 Nephi 11. Let the group go through the basilica and the Church of St. Joseph on their own.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I love this fresco of Mary and a grown Jesus comforting an aged Joseph before his death.</i></td></tr>
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<b>Tiberias for the Night</b><br />
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From Nazareth, Rami drove us to Tverya, or Tiberias, the largest Israeli city on the Sea of Galilee, where we checked in to the Leonardo Hotel. Because Shabbat had started at sundown, the hotel's restaurant was full of orthodox Jews who had come to enjoy a meal that they did not need to cook. <br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-8594592203053434532018-12-26T12:02:00.000-08:002019-02-24T15:28:19.290-08:00Christmas in the Holy Land without Missing Christmas!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On December 26, 2018, Elaine and I flew out of Salt Lake City on the first leg of our trip to Tel Aviv, where we met 27 travelers on<a href="https://www.cruiselady.com/tourlocation/israel-jordan-land/" target="_blank"> a Cruise Lady Holy Land tour</a>. I usually take these groups in April or May, but this was a chance to take a group between Western Christmas, December 26, and Eastern Christmas, January 6.<br />
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Elaine had not been back to Israel and Palestine since our return from Jerusalem in 2012. In view of my pending two-year assignment as the academic director of the BYU Jerusalem Center in 2020-22, this trip was a chance to get her "feet back on the ground" in the Holy Land.<br />
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I have been back three other times leading Cruise Lady Tours and once on a university assignment, but I always love getting back to "my other home."<br />
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After changing planes in New York City and flying through the night, we arrived in Tel Aviv late in the afternoon on December 27 and caught a cab to the Grand Beach Hotel (because of the busy season, the hotels where we usually stay were, as often as not, already full). The first our our group we met were Doug and Heidi Cole in the lobby. After checking in to our room, we met a few more--Gary Thompson and his brother-in-law Rick Willie and the Jennings and Wright families--at dinner. We then had our orientation meeting in a conference room, where we met the others: the Belnap family, the Muirs, Steve Nelson and his grandsons CJ and Logan, and the Strongs.<br />
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In Tel Aviv we met our group, some of whom had already spent 4 days in Jordan. It was a small group, including couples of a various ages and several families. Because of its size, we were able to get to know our fellow-travelers well, and it was one of my most enjoyable trips.<br />
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The experience was even better because of our great local guide, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/salah.siyam" target="_blank">Salah Siyam</a>, from the Abu Tor neighborhood in Jerusalem. We worked well togehter and he quickly became a good friend.</div>
Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-72263067531203411132017-05-15T16:29:00.000-07:002017-05-16T17:50:44.758-07:00Last Day: Israel Museum, Hebrew University, and a Possible Emmaus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I started my last day in Jerusalem with what has become my traditional run, though I pushed it all the way up to the BYU Jerusalem Center, where I could take some final pictures and say goodbye to some of the security staff.<br />
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One of the reasons for our trip extension was for my research and class prep for this fall's ANES 310, History and Culture of Ancient Israel. Although I have been through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Museum" target="_blank">the Israel Museum</a> several times before, Rachel and I went through the archaeological wing very slowly and carefully this morning, taking notes and pictures of important artifacts (not posted here).<br />
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When we came out, we went up to the plaza of the Shrine of the Book for iconic pictures between the black monolith representing the Sons of Darkness and the white roof that looks like a Dead Sea Scroll jar.<br />
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<b>Mount Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University</b><br />
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We spent much of the afternoon with Amanda Brown, an ANES alumna and a member of the Jerusalem Branch, who gave us a tour of the main campus of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem" target="_blank">Hebrew University</a>. Established on Mount Scopus in 1918, its founders included Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. After the 1948 war, Mount Scopus was cut off from the rest of Israel, and a new campus was established in West Jerusalem. After 1967, the old campus on Mount Scopus was renewed and expanded and now seats most of the Humanities and Liberal Arts programs.<br />
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I have been on the campus a few times before, but Amanda's tour was pretty thorough. It also was useful since, among other things, Rachel is considering doing a Masters degree here after she graduates from BYU with her major in ANES-Greek New Testament and her minor in Modern Hebrew.<br />
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The campus includes a wonderful biblical garden in which is found an archaeological site that I have been meaning to see for years, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Nicanor" target="_blank">Nicanor's Tomb</a>. This tomb complex was apparently started by "Nicanor the Door Maker," who may have donated the doors to the temple. It is interesting to me because it provides another example of what the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, where Jesus was buried, might have looked like.<br />
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Menachem Ussishkin, an early Zionist, secured the site of Nicanor's Tomb and envisioned that it would be a "national pantheon" for the graves of leading Israeli figures, but only he and Leon Pinsker were buried there.<br />
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On our way out of town, Rachel and I stopped at two sites in the current Arab town of Abu Ghosh on the way to Tel Aviv, which is one of the possible sites of Emmaus, on the road to which two disciples encountered the Risen Lord.<br />
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The first was the Church of the Resurrection.<br />
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The other site we stopped to see before heading to the airport and our flight home was <span><span>Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant. After the Ark of the
Covenant was regained from the Philistines, it went to Bet Shemesh and
then to here, Qiryat Ye'arim, until David took it to Jerusalem. The
Byzantines built a church here, destroyed first by the Persians and
later by the mad Fatimid caliph Hakkim. When a French order started
rebuilding it, they found the 5C mosaic. Just as the ark held God's
word, so Mary held the Incarnate Word, first in her womb and then in her
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This fall I will be teaching ANES 310, History and Culture of Ancient Israel, for the first time. While I am in good control of the Second Temple and Early Christian Periods and have plenty of material for them, I am working gathering more material for the earlier periods. Much of this is being done in the museums here in Jerusalem, but today Rachel and I took a trip to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shfela" target="_blank">Shephelah </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negev" target="_blank">Negev</a> to visit a few key sites.<br />
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Although it is a bit dated now, I took my trusty copy of Jerome Murphy-O'Connor's <i>The Holy Land: An Archaeological Guide</i>. <br />
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Lakhish (Hebrew, <span dir="rtl" lang="he">לכיש</span>; KJV, "Lachish") was an important site in the southern Kingdom of Judah. Throughout most of the kingdom's history, it was the second most important fortress and city after Jerusalem itself. It was one of a string of fortified points in the Shephelah, or low-rolling hills, that controlled the valleys leading up into the Judean highlands.<br />
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It was taken first by the Assyrians and then the Babylonians after lengthy and difficult sieges. The Assyrian siege of 701 B.C. is well-depicted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachish_reliefs" target="_blank">the Lachish Reliefs</a>, which I am taking my study abroad students to see in the British Museum next month. The Babylonian siege is documented by<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachish_letters" target="_blank"> the Lachish Letters</a>, that the local commanders tried to write to Jerusalem.<br />
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<b>Be`er Sheba</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A replica of the horned altar (original in the Israel Museum). It was destroyed in the reforms of Hezekiah.</i></td></tr>
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Be'er Sheva, or the "Well of Seven" was where Abraham dug a well, Isaac saw the Lord, and
Jacob lived. Most of these ruins are from the 8C B.C., right before the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rachel by the well of Be`er Sheva, which some think was the one dug by Abraham and Isaac.</i></td></tr>
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<b>Lunch break!</b><br />
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Don't judge us. Sometimes after a couple weeks in the middle east, one just needs to go to McDonald's. We ate there; we didn't take advantage of the "McDrive."<br />
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<b>Arad</b><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Arad" target="_blank">Arad</a> (Hebrew, <span class="script-hebrew" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "alef" , "sbl biblit" , "sbl hebrew" , "david clm" , "frenk ruehl clm" , "hadasim clm" , "cardo" , "shofar" , "david" , "ezra sil" , "ezra sil sr" , "noto sans hebrew" , "freeserif" , "times new roman" , "freesans" , "arial"; font-size: 115%;">תל ערד</span>) was very large Canaanite settlement in the Bronze Age. Then it lay empty
for 1500 years. During the Iron Age, it was the site of a Judahite
fortress that served as an administrative and religious center.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Canaanite city was very extensive</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Rachel by the Arad cistern, which lay at the center of a large, natural catchment basin---all the water during the rainy season in the city drained into it</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>It was deep!</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I'm standing in front of the double Bronze Age sanctuary</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Canaanite walls are strengthened by semi-circular towers</i></td></tr>
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The Judahite fortress on the highest part of the site boasted an Israelite temple. This sanctuary boasted an outer court with a
stone and earth altar, a wide holy place with benches for offerings,
and a Holy of Holies with incense stands and a standing stone. It
functioned until the reforms of Hezekiah, when the stone and incense
altars were buried on their sides, and the entire altar of burnt
offerings and the sanctuary were covered with earth.<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-2977005571375206632017-05-13T12:36:00.001-07:002017-05-13T13:26:23.211-07:00Extra Day 2: Return to the Old City<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today was Sabbath, when, for a variety of reasons, LDS services are held. Today in the Jerusalem Center it was District Conference, so members from the branches and groups throughout the country gathered for a joint meeting, joined by many visitors like ourselves.<br />
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After our meetings were over, we drove through the campus of Hebrew University, quiet for Sabbath, and stopped at some overlooks on Mount Scopus, one that overlooked the Judean Wilderness to the east and another with views of the city. From there we also saw the remains of a Second Temple Period tomb with <i>kokkhim</i> horizontal graves such as was likely the type in which Jesus was buried.<br />
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<b>Back to the Holy Sepulchre</b> <br />
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We then took Tim and Teresa Wright back to the Old City to revisit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and some churches and other sites we had not managed to see with the group earlier in the week.<br />
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In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre we first climbed on top of Golgotha to see the Latin altar of Calvary, that commemorated when Jesus was nailed to the cross, and the Orthodox altar, where he was lifted upon the cross and hung until his death.<br />
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We then descended from Golgotha to enter the Chapel of Adam, where a window revealed another exposed piece of the rock, cracked either from the cross or the earthquakes that followed Jesus' death. We then worked around the church in a counterclockwise direction, visiting the lower Chapel of St. Helen and the still lower Chapel of the Invention (Finding) of the Cross.<br />
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We then made our way to the Rotunda, viewed some services being held there, and entered the small Syrian Chapel of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, off of which is small room that reveals two more <i>kokkhim </i>horizontal shafts that confirm that this area was, in fact, a first century burial ground.<br />
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<b>Church of Alexander Nevsky</b><br />
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in the mid nineteenth century the imperial Russian government bought a
prime piece of property in the Old City near the Holy Sepulchre. <a href="http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/publications/articles/article0083.html" target="_blank">Planning as a hostel for Russian pilgrims, they began construction, only to find significant archaeological remains</a>.
These are preserved below and to the east of the sanctuary that they
eventually built here as part of a larger complex. This church is named
after the Russian saint Alexander Nevsky, the patron of the Czar
Alexander who was ruling Russia at the time.<br />
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These remains included the triumphal gateway into the Temple of Venus
complex built in A.D. 135 by the emperor Hadrian when he re-built
Jerusalem as a Roman city. It is believed that the Venus temple was
built here to co-opt the holy site of the Christians, namely where they
had been commemorating the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Nearby are the remnants of the earlier Herodian Wall, giving evidence
for where the course of the wall was in the time of Jesus. In this wall
are the remnants of a city gate, called The Gate of Judgment and
believed to be the one through which Jesus passed on his way to
Jerusalem. Just to the side of the gateway is a narrow slot that some
have tried to argue is the "Eye of the Needle" to which Jesus referred
in the Synoptic story of the Rich Young Man. While this might be
possible, see <a href="http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/camelneedle.htm" target="_blank">this link for a philological and historical discussion of the expression</a>.
All of these remnants support the traditional claim of the Holy
Sepulchre to be the site at least of the crucifixion, and the original
church complex built by Constantine extended at least this far.<br />
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Hanging above the sanctuary of Alexander Nevsky is a beautiful series of
passion paintings executed by by Russian artist Nikolay Koshelev. If
you like the work of Danish Carl Bloch, you will love these painting.<br />
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<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Redeemer,_Jerusalem" target="_blank">Lutheran Church of the Redeemer</a></b><br />
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Everyone should have a church in Jerusalem, even the Germans. That is what Kaiser Wilhelm II thought when he made a visit in 1898 for the dedication of a beautifully simple (relatively speaking) church not far from the previous churches mentioned in this blogpost. The main sanctuary hosts services in Arabic, German, and Danish. This church holds a warm memory, because we frequently attended English-speaking services in the nearby Cloister led by our friend Fred Strickert while we were living here.<br />
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After visiting the shop of our friend Shaban, we then exited through the Jaffa Gate, leading a view of the Citadel behind us.<br />
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Herodian Family Tomb<br />
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Our final stop was a rich family tomb that has been identified as the family tomb of Herod. While he was buried in a massive mausoleum at the Herodion near Bethlehem, this is where members of his family were buried, in view of his palace across the valley.<br />
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This tomb, featuring an intact rolling stone, gives some sense of what a rich tomb, like that of Joseph of Arimathea, would have been like in this period.<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-16848517922501742652017-05-12T11:11:00.000-07:002017-05-13T12:37:28.542-07:00Extra Day in Jerusalem 1: City of David<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Most of our group left for the airport last night right after our farewell dinner. We saw some others this morning who were going to Egypt with Dan Peterson, but two couples, the Paces and the Wrights were staying a bit longer, so Rachel and I spent some time this morning taking them to the City of David National Park.<br />
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The site is, to be honest, a bit controversial. It is a very important archaeological site representing the earliest settlement area, both Canaanite and Israelite, in the Jerusalem area. But today's City of David also lies in what was formerly part of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan.<br />
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While today's City of David is outside the current Old City's walls, which are Turkish dating to A.D. 1538 and follow the course of the earlier Hadrianic Roman walls of c. A.D. 135 (but <i>not</i> the more extensive Byzantine walls of Jerusalem's Christian three centuries), it was always the heart of Jewish Jerusalem.<br />
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The earlier Canaanite city and the City of David itself were situated
on a narrow "thumb" of land extending south from Mount Moriah, later
known as the Temple Mount. It had steep valleys on the other three
sides---the Central Valley on the west, the Hinnom Valley on the
south, and the Qidron Valley on the east. The Qidron Valley continues
northward, separating the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives on the
east. Interestingly, the City of David and the slightly higher Mount
Moriah to its north are NOT the highest of the hills of Jerusalem. The
Western Hill (appearing here labeled as "Hezekiah's Extension" and
"Mount Zion") and the Mount of Olives to the east are much higher. But
the reason that the City of David was chosen for settlement first is
because it is the only hill with a good, constant supply of water in the
form of the Gihon Spring.<br />
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There are a lot of interesting First Temple period excavations to look at in this park, though some of them, like the important stone retaining wall of Area G, were not readily viewable because of renovation projects going on in the park. Also, given our friends' interest and our rather tight time schedule, we hurried on to the probably the most interesting part of the City of David, which is Hezekiah's Tunnel.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siloam_tunnel" target="_blank">Hezekiah's tunnel</a> was built in advance of the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 B.C. It brought the waters of the Gihon Spring into the expanded city of Jerusalem, funneling them under the City of David into the new Pool of Siloam at the base of the Central Valley, which was within Hezekiah's expanded city which now included the Western Hill.<br />
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So we doffed our shoes for water socks or sandals, unzipped our gators (turning field pants into shorts) or rolled up our pants, and plunged into the tunnel and its waters. We then slogged through 533 meters of the winding tunnel with only one flashlight and our camera phones for light. Through part of it we happily sang hymns and harmonized. It was fun.<br />
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The water has, at least since the Byzantine period, emptied into a small-ish pool that recounts the events of John 9, when Jesus healed the man born blind. However, fairly recent excavations have uncovered a much larger pool from the Second Temple Period that better fits the description.<br />
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We then walked up an other tunnel, this one created by archaeologists to reveal the previously buried street that led up the valley from the Pool of Siloam up to the Temple Mount. At one point, our modern tunnel veered and went under said street so that we could walk through the Herodian drainage tunnel that ran under that street.<br />
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This archaeological tunnel can be taken up to the Davidson Archaeological Park at the base of the Temple Mount, but we exited it a bit early to see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givati_Parking_Lot_dig" target="_blank">the new Givati excavations</a>, which some think may be the remains of the palaces of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_of_Adiabene" target="_blank">the Queen of Adiabene</a>.<br />
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-72076299525187397002017-05-11T12:37:00.000-07:002017-05-13T13:27:05.338-07:00Final Day in Jerusalem . . . with the tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today was the final day of our Holy Land tour, though Rachel and I will be staying here for a few more days as I do some research and site visits for an upcoming class that I am teaching on the History and Culture of Ancient Israel, and Rachel visits and looks into Hebrew University, which she is considering for a masters degree.<br />
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With our group we covered a lot of ground, starting our day by a visit to what our Muslim friends call the Haram esh-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary Jews and Christians call the Temple Mount. We then visited St. Anne's, which is also the site of the biblical Pool of Bethsesda, and then followed the traditional path of the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.<br />
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After lunch, Rachel, our friend Rust, and I went up to the roof of the Austrian Hospice for some good views of the Old City. We then rejoined our group for a walk to and through the Jewish Quarter, which included seeing the remains of the Byzantine Cardo, or a Main Street, and the remains of the wall built by Hezekiah to prepare for the Assyrian siege. We then visited the Western Wall, the holiest current site in Judaism.<br />
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We then took buses up to the Jerusalem Center, where my family lived from 2011-2012, before going to the Garden Tomb, an alternative site popular with some Protestants and many Latter-day Saints because it is easier in many ways to imagine the events of the crucifixion and burial here. We then ended the tour with a farewell meal at the Christmas Hotel in East Jerusalem.<br />
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Here are some video highlights:<br />
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<b>Haram esh-Sharif</b><br />
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What Jews and Christians call the Temple Mount (<span dir="rtl" lang="he">הַר הַבַּיִת</span>, Hebrew for "Mount of the House [of God]), Muslims call the Haram esh-Sharif (<span dir="rtl" lang="ar">الحرم الشريف</span>, Arabic for "Noble Sanctuary"). I use the latter name because Herod's temple platform currently serves as a Muslim holy place---not just the famous Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque but the entire precinct, which serves as an outdoor mosque and place of prayer. The Dome of the Rock protects and honors the rock from which the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have made his night journey to heaven. Many Jews believe that this is where Abraham almost sacrificed Isaac, and it is almost certainly where the Holy of Holies was in both the First and Second Temples. Christians believe that Jesus honored this site and taught here.<br />
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<b>St. Anne's and the Pool of Bethesda </b><br />
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Coming off of the Haram esh-Sharif, we went to the compound of the Crusader-era <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Anne,_Jerusalem" target="_blank">Church of St. Anne</a>, which was built to honor the (apocryphal) mother of Mary, Jesus' mother. While we were waiting to get into the church, which has marvelous acoustics and is great for singing hymns, we visited the archaeological remains of the Pool of Bethesda.<br />
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John 5:2 mentions a pool in Jerusalem that had five porches. Archaeology has revealed that this was a double pool, with the upper pool connected to the lower by a sluice gate in the dam between the two that could be opened up to replenish the lower and allow it to fulfill the requirements of a <i>miqveh</i> or ritual bath. During and after the time of Jesus, the area had a reputation for healing (the Romans later built a temple of Asclepius here). This was where Jesus healed the man who had had an infirmity for thirty-eight years, which led to his discourse on the Divine Son (John 5:17-47). I discussed this at some length, and we sang "Rock of Ages."<br />
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We then walked the course of the Via Dolorosa, or "Way of Sorrows," established by the Franciscans in the eighteenth century. This was done partly to provide Roman Catholic pilgrims an alternate route given that so many of the traditional holy sites were owned by the Greek Orthodox. In addition, historically Jesus was probably tried before Pilate in Herod's old palace, where the Roman governors had taken residence. But the Franciscans assumed that the trial had taken place in the Fortress Antonia, which created the following path to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:</div>
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The earliest Christians venerated a large outcropping of rock and a nearby tomb where they believed that Jesus had been crucified and buried. After the Second Jewish Revolt of A.D. 132-136, the emperor Hadrian strove to co-opt, sometimes literally covering over, earlier places that were important to the Jews, such as the Temple Mount, where he built a Temple to Jupiter. Christians, especially in the Holy Land were seen as just another kind of Jew, so the rock and tomb were covered by a large platform upon which Hadrian built a Temple to Aphrodite.</div>
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When Helena, the mother of Constantine, came to the Holy Land on a pilgrimage to A.D. 326-328, she and Makarios, the bishop of Jerusalem, identified the site, and Constantine gave permission for them to raze the Aphrodite Temple, dismantle the platform, and uncover the rock. Unfortunately, the walls of the cave tomb itself were cut away to expose the burial shelf, which was enclosed in a small shrine called the Aedicule.</div>
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began with a gateway and courtyard followed by a large basilica called the <i>Martyrium</i> or witness. Another open court behind the basilica was called "The Garden," and
recalled the original garden surrounding the Lord's tomb. There was
then a circular domed shrine called
the <i>Anastasis</i>, or "Resurrection."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A model illustrating the relationship of the original domed shrine over
the tomb (left) and the basilica (right). In the corner of "the
Garden" court the rock of Golgotha was exposed.</i></td></tr>
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This church was destroyed by the Persians in 614. It had barely been
rebuilt when the Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638. The Arabs
initially allowed the Christians to worship freely, but in 1009 the mad
Fatamid caliph Al-Hakim razed the church to the ground.<br />
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In 1048 the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachos paid to rebuild
the church but could only afford to rebuild the rotunda over the tomb
itself. Later, when the Crusaders took Jerusalem, they expanded this
building some, leading to the basic floor plan of the church today. <br />
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All of these changes have completely obscured the original nature of the site. The cave of the tomb itself has long since been destroyed, replaced by the Aedicule, and the rock is largely covered, encased in marble on top of which have been built Latin and Greek altars. A small window in the Chapel of Adam below the Calvary altars and a larger one around the corner in the aisle, however, expose some of the original rock.<br />
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Because of the many changes in the site and the sometimes unfamiliar patterns of worship in the Holy Sepulchre, some Protestants and many Latter-day Saints are not as comfortable here, which perhaps keeps them from appreciating the significance of the place. Even if it does not contain the actual places of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, the faith of millions of worshipers for almost 2,000 years has made it sacred.<br />
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I always remind visitors whom I bring to the Holy Sepulchre of a few things. First, move pass the Calvary altars and the rock of anointing and make a quick turn to the left. There, away from some of the bustle of pilgrim crowds, you can see the exposed rock of Golgotha through the window and perhaps imagine what it originally looked like. Second, when entering the Rotunda, look up at the light streaming through the oculus, or skylight, of the dome. Third, if possible, enter the Syrian chapel of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, where you can see two <i>kokkim</i> tombs from the first century. These show that this indeed had been a burial ground and give some idea of what Jesus' resting place may have been like. </div>
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obscured the original nature of the site, chapels in its basement reveal
that it was originally a stone quarry and that kokkim tombs typical of the first century were later dug there.</i></td></tr>
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Walking through the Jewish Quarter, we saw remains from the First Temple Period (a portion of Hezekiah's city wall), Maccabean ruins, Herodian remains, and the <i>Cardo</i>, or main street of the Roman city built after A.D. 135 (which became the later Byzantine Christian city).</div>
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What used to be called "the Wailing Wall" is more properly called the <i>Kotel</i> or Western Wall. The wall is not from the temple proper but rather consists of the the
remaining portions of the enormous retaining wall that Herod the Great
built to hold up the temple platform. Only the lower courses of stones,
massive Herodian ashlars, are actually from the Second Temple, although
some 21 courses lie below the level of today's street. Above the big
stones of Herod are many rows of later Byzantine stones, topped by
courses of even smaller, more irregular Arab and Turkish stones.
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Because it is generally the closest that observant Jews can get to the site of the original Holy of Holies (there is a controversial passageway called <a href="http://huntsmansintheholyland.blogspot.co.il/2011/12/kotel-tunnel.html" target="_blank">the Kotel Tunnel</a>), this is effectively the holiest site in Judaism, where people from across the world come to pray, hoping their prayers will ascend more directly to God. <br />
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<b>Visit to the Jerusalem Center</b><br />
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Regardless of its relatively recent popularity and lack of
archaeological or historical credentials, this beautiful spot it a
favorite of many Protestants and most Latter-day Saints because it
provides such a fitting setting to remember the events of that first
Easter morning and and celebrate the miracle of the Resurrection.
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We had a moving final devotional. The warm guide, Cesar, who took us around, recognized me from visits in previous years (he later said it was because he remembered how my groups sang!). He allowed me to interrupt his explanation on Skull Hill to read Luke 23:33-46 and for us to sing "Upon the Cross of Calvary." After he finished his explanation in the main part of the garden, we took pictures at the Empty Tomb before gathering in Pavilion B for our devotional. We sang "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today," and I read from and spoke about John 20. We then had a testimony meeting, after which we sang "He Is Risen" and JoAnn prayed for us.</div>
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Eric D. Huntsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12595767380736848091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233279513359665960.post-69996121401386917682017-05-10T11:56:00.002-07:002017-05-13T12:37:28.575-07:00Bethlehem; the Israel Museum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today we took a bus into the Bethlehem area. This is part of "Area A" of the West Bank, meaning that it is under full Palestinian civil and military control. Our purpose, of course, was to visit sites associated with the birth of Jesus. For convenience, we took these somewhat out of order, stopping first at one of the traditional sites of the "Shepherds Field" before continuing on to Bethlehem proper to visit the likely place of his birth. We then had a fun Arab meal before heading back to Jerusalem.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Sahour" target="_blank">Bayt Sahur</a> (Arabic, <span dir="rtl" lang="ar"><big>بيت ساحور</big></span>) is a largely Christian town whose name may meaning something like "House of the Night Watches.," which is appropriate given that somewhere near here would have been where the shepherds were "abiding with their flocks by night" when the angle of the Lord announced the birth of Jesus.<br />
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The site we stopped at is Khirbet Siyar el-Ghanem, the Roman Catholic site that is operated by the Franciscans. An alternative site, <span class="st"><span dir="ltr">Kanisat al-Ruwat, is operated by the Greek Orthodox Church, and both sites include Byzantine ruins. Before visiting the modern church, which was designed to look like a shepherd's tent and is decorated with beautiful paintings about the Annunciation to the Shepherds, we gathered in a meeting area overlooking some open hillsides. There I spoke about the Infancy Narratives, and we read from Luke 2 and sang "Angels We Have Heard on High."</span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span dir="ltr"><b>Church of the Nativity</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span dir="ltr"><span class="st"><span dir="ltr">Early Christians venerated a series of
caves in the hillside of Bethlehem as the place of Jesus' birth.
Sometime around A.D. 135, the emperor Hadrian built a temple to Tammuz,
the pagan god of food, as part of his wider effort to obliterate Jewish
and Christian holy sites following the unsuccessful Second Jewish Revolt
of A.D. 132-136. Some two hundred years later, Constantine allowed his
mother Helena to raze the pagan temple and build a large Christian
basilica. This was destroyed in one of the Samaritan Revolts of the
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<span class="st"><span dir="ltr">While we waited in line for about a half hour to go into the traditional grotto under the Greek Orthodox altar, Victor told us about the history of the church. We then moved into the small cave, the natural walls and ceiling of which are almost completely obscured by hangings, lamps, and other religious decorations, to see the 14-pointed start that marks the supposed place of Jesus' birth and the small altar commemorating the manger where he was first laid.</span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span dir="ltr">While this kind of shrine is unfamiliar, even uncomfortable, to some Protestants and most Latter-day Saints, we need to remember that the Grotto of the Nativity is only one cave in a series throughout the hillside, and Jesus could have been born in any of them. Fortunately, several of them lie under the Roman Catholic Church of St. Catherine, and these are less ornamented and give a better feel for what a cave used as a stable might have been like.</span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span dir="ltr">In one of these (numbered 10 and 5 in the map above), we were able to gather, read the Luke 2 birth story, and sing "Away in a Manger." I then led us in prayer, and it was a pretty special experience.</span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span dir="ltr">Before leaving Bethlehem, we stopped and had a mixed grill, traditional Arab meal at the tent restaurant.</span></span><br />
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<span class="st"><span dir="ltr">After we crossed back into Israel, we went to the Israel Museum. While a few hours are hardly sufficient for such a great museum, we were able to enjoy the famous model of Jerusalem shortly before the outbreak of the First Jewish Revolt in A.D. 66, visit the Shrine of the Book, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed, and visit some of the archaeological exhibitions inside.</span></span><br />
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