Blessed Pilgrimage: Embracing the Covenant

Overview

This volume will be available in 2025 on Amazon and this website.

Table of Contents

• 1 In This Holy Land
• 2 Historical Sketch
• 3 Abrahamic Covenant
• 4 Mt. Hermon and Bashan
  • Nimrod Fortress
  • Katzrin Park
• 5 Upper Jordan Valley
  • Tel Dan
  • Caesarea Philippi (Banias)
  • Tel Abel Beth Maacah
  • el Hazor
• 6 Jezreel Valley
  • Mt. Tabor
  • The Hill of Moreh
  • Mt. Gilboa
  • A City Called Nain
  • Harod Spring
  • Tel Jezreel
  • Beit Shean
  • Gan HaShlosha
  • Tel Megiddo
  • Tel Jokneam
• 7 Mt. Ephraim
  • Dothan
  • Samaria (Sebastia)
  • Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Ebal
  • Shechem (Nablus)
  • Jacob’s Well
  • Shiloh
• 8 Benjamin Plateau
  • Nebi Samwil
  • Bethel
  • Ai
  • Mizpeh
  • Gideon
  • Gibeon
  • Geba
• 9 Judean Wilderness
  • Wadi Qelt
  • St. George Monastery
• 10 Lower Jordan Valley
  • Monastery of Temptation
  • Jericho
  • Tel Jericho (Tell es-Sultan)
  • Herod’s Winter Palace
  • Tree of Zacchaeus
  • Russian Museum
  • Hisham’s Palace
  • Qasr al-Yehud (baptismal site)
  • Dead Sea
  • Qumran
  • Ein Gedi
  • Nahal Arugot
  • Masada

Sample Photos

View north: Mt. Hermon from the village of Mas’ade, where lake Ram is located.

View northeast: Caesarea Philippi where Simon Peter answered Jesus and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt. 16:16).

View east: The Jezreel Valley from Mt. Precipice (Nazareth), looking toward Mt. Tabor (top left) and the hill of Moreh (top right).

Jacob’s Well in Shechem (modern Nablus). The man is Johnny, my friend and driver around parts of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). On other occasions I ride the Arab commuter bus from Bethlehem to Ramallah to Nablus.

View east: The trail up Wadi Qelt that leads from Jericho to the monastery of St. George.