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For readability, I display the pages on top of each other rather than side-by-side (book format). Chapters and sections begin on even pages (left side) with introductory photos. Title pages begin on odd pages (right side).
To see the book layout, reduce the percentage in the title bar below to about 50. Then click the three dots in the title bar (right side) and select “Two page view.”
View northeast: Looking out Bethsaida’s inner-city gate with four chambers, two on each side. Three of the chambers served as granaries. The Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser III destroyed the city in 732 BC.
View west: Looking in the inner city gate (above) across the courtyard, which was the heart of the ancient town.
View southwest: The gate of Bethsaida (et-Tell; top center below the sun streak). The photo shows the city in relation to the plain and the Sea of Galilee (top). The Jordan Park is in the trees (top right).
View south: The outer city gate, looking toward the courtyard and inner-city gate, which dates to the biblical period (tenth–eighth centuries BC).
View east: The Sacrificial High Place. “In the pit near the high place were bones from sacrificial animals of types that comply with Leviticus 11” (quote is from the sign).
View south: This was a street in Bethsaida, reminding us that “whithersoever [Jesus] entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets” to be made whole (Mark 6:56).
View east: The Plain of Bethsaida. This photo was taken between el-Araj and et-Tell, walking north to et-Tell (Bethsaida) from the Sea of Galilee.
View southwest: This photo was taken on the hike to Bethsaida (et-Tell) from the Sea of Galilee. It is only a quarter mile (500 meters) from the Plain of Bethsaida (see the bottom photo on page 260).
View southeast: the northeastern shore of the Sea of Galilee at el-Araj, one of the candidates for biblical Bethsaida (see the bottom photo on page 262).
View West: The Plain of Bethsaida with the fishing village of el-Araj on the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee (top center in the trees by the shore). Above the trees Across the lake are Tiberias and Mt. Arbel.
View northwest: The excavations of the other Bethsaida (el-Araj) on the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee.
View West: This photo was taken on the plain of Bethsaida a short distance west of el-Araj (Bethsaida) on a hike to Capernaum. I got lucky and caught this picture of a red fox crossing the path.
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If you’re using photos as part of a PowerPoint (electronic) presentation, it’s enough to mention the source of the photos at the beginning of your lecture.
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