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1. Following the Patriachs
2. To Jericho
3. Eingedi's Secrets
4. The Temple's Virtual Model
5. Biblical Jerusalem
6. Caesarea
7. Gezer
8. Lachish
9. Jerusalem's model.
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In 1965 the owner of the Holy Land hotel Invited Prof. M. Avi-Yona of the Hebrew Univercity to design a 1:50 modoel of Jerusalem in the 1st. century. in his back yard. Ever since, this model is a source of understaning better the shape of the city 2000 years ago.
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The two possibilities of Jesus' "Via Dolorosa".
Looking from the west, in the heart of the city is the temple (1) built in the center of a huge temenos. In the Byzantine period the christians believed that Jesus was judged in Herod's palace (2). Since the crusader period and to this day the tradition is that Jesus was judged in the fortress of the city (3). Both tradition place the Golgotha (4) outside the city, in accordance with gospels (John 19 20). |
The Southern wall of the Temple Mount.
In the first century CE these were the main entrances to the temple mount as the Mishna tells us. Some of the original staircase and the decorations of the ceiling are still intact at the site. |
The Temple from the east.
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The Beth Hisda pools.
"Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, in Hebrew called Beth-za'tha, which has five porticoes.."(John 5 2). These pools, just north of the temple mount, are identified as the place where Jesus saw a man "who had been ill for thirty-eight years.. Jesus said to him "Rise, take up your pallet, and walk" And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked" (John 5 5-9). |
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