Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Friday, July 23, 2010

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel X: Nazareth

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"Why do you want to go to Nazareth?  What's in Nazareth?"  A ten-year old friend of the family in Tel Aviv asked me this befor...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel IX: Capernaum

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Before going to Capernaum, I felt that I knew a bit about it, not least because of the superb filming and CGI reconstruction that took plac...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel VIII: The "Jesus Boat"

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I was keen to get to see the so-called "Jesus Boat" in (the) Galilee. I have often shown pictures of it to the students in my Hi...
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A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel VII: Galilee

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For the student interested in early Judaism, the historical Jesus or Christian origins, it is of course essential to spend some time in Gali...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel VI: Masada

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If you are staying in the Dead Sea, or even if you are not, you have to make a journey to Masada.  It's one of the richest educationa...
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Friday, July 09, 2010

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel V: The Dead Sea

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If you are going to Israel, on no account miss out on the Dead Sea experience.  We took just a night there, but we would have loved a week. ...
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A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel IV: Jerusalem

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I loved visiting Jerusalem.  Even though a day is nowhere near enough, you can do a remarkable amount in a day.  The highlight, without ques...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel III: Bethlehem

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Well, of course you have to go to Bethlehem.  It wasn't top of my list of priorities, and I did not expect to find it particularly strik...

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel II: Jaffa

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While we were staying in Tel Aviv, we took a short taxi ride to Jaffa (NT Joppa), which is only a few miles down the road.  This was our fir...

A Biblical Scholar's First Impressions of Israel I: Tel Aviv

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I have always wanted to travel to Israel, of course. Until recently, I have had neither time nor opportunity to do it, to say nothing of th...
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