A pilgrimage to the places where it actually happened — written for the reader who will never get there. In October 2014 Dave Armstrong spent thirteen days walking the Holy Land with a party of five: Mount Carmel where Elijah faced the prophets of Baal, Caesarea Philippi where Jesus named Peter the rock, the Mount of the Transfiguration, Cana, Nazareth, the River Jordan, the Mount of Temptation, the ancient Jericho road, Bethlehem at Christmas, the Holy Sepulchre, Gethsemane, the Temple Mount.
This book is the day-by-day journal of that trip — what each site felt like, what its archaeology shows, what its Scripture says. Five Archaeological Interludes pause the narrative to consider the live questions: where Sodom and Gomorrah actually stood (the current north-of-the-Dead-Sea trend), whether Joshua’s altar on Mount Ebal has now been verified, the locations of the Crucifixion and the tomb and the Via Dolorosa.
The front-cover photograph was taken by Margie Prox Sindelar at Caesarea Philippi the morning of 23 October 2014 — the rock itself.
Inside this book
- A day-by-day journal of thirteen days in the Holy Land — what each site looks like, what Scripture happened there
- Five Archaeological Interludes: Sodom and Gomorrah’s likely location, Joshua’s altar on Mount Ebal, the Crucifixion and tomb sites and the Via Dolorosa
- Bethlehem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, written for readers who will never see them in person
- The Temple Mount, the Wailing Wall, Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the Pool of Siloam, Western Wall Tunnels
- Cover photograph by Margie Prox Sindelar — Caesarea Philippi, the morning of 23 October 2014
