a living proof of ancient grandeur and independence and a center of national renaissance; forChristiansit is the scene ofJesus’ agony and triumph; forMuslimsit is the goal of the ProphetMuhammad’s mysticnight journeyand the site of one ofIslam’smost sacred shrines. For all three faiths it...
Jerusalem Map Jesus Map of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus– a Map of Jerusalem during the time of Herod the Great. This is also when Jesus arrived to Jerusalem and eventually, where he was condemned to death and walked the Via Dolorosa (Latin for ‘Way of Grief’). He was crucified ...
A European priest looks 1,500 years into the past and imagines the Holy City at the birth of Christianity.
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JERUSALEM DURING JESUSwas a thriving metropolis, thanks in no small part to Herod the Great's eye and talent for architecture. The map of ancient Jerusalem above provides a detailed look at the terraced western ridge. The Tyropoeon Valley can clearly be seen dissecting the eastern and western...
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during this splendid era of church construction that the tradition of Christian pilgrimages to Jerusalem began. The most visited pilgrimage sites were Bethlehem, were Jesus was born; Golgatha, the site of his death (and where legend says the skull of Adam is buried); the Church of the Holy ...
Mark 14: 72:“And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept”.Ophel and Hulda GatesThe south-east side of the temple mount. Excavations ...
The famous mosaic map of Jerusalem discovered lately at Madaba (Guthe and Palmer, “Die Mosaikkarte von Madeba”, 1906) gives an idea of the state of the city in Justinian’s time. During this period the See of Jerusalem, like those of Alexandria and Antioch, was troubled continually by...
³¹He observed anold woman passingby, and he knew thatinher mind she livedatleast asmuch inJorsalaborgand the HolyLand in the days ofJesus, as she did in thevillageofHvalvík.³²She livedher worldly(secular)life in Hvalvík, but her spiri-Hansen,Er heima til?,130–...