Images & Art

Mount Tabor

Photo from Christian Resource Institute. Mount Tabor, Hebrew HAR TAVOR, Arabic JABAL AT-TUR, historic elevation of northern Israel, in Lower Galilee near the edge of the Plain of Esdraelon ('Emeq Yizre'el). Though comparatively low (1,929 feet [588 m]), it dominates the level landscape around it, leading to the biblical expression 'like Tabor among...

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The main street in Ancient Corinth

[images] [Archaeology]...

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Gilgamesh Epic

From K. C. Hanson's Photo Gallery of Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh Epic Tablet 11: The Flood Narrative ? century BC...

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A Threshing Floor near Bethlehem

In this photo, the harvested grain stalks are stacked by the threshing floor awaiting threshing. While this threshing floor has been constructed at the edge of an open field, threshing floors in the ancient world were often carved directly into the rock. Biblical tradition recalls that the site for the temple in Jerusalem was originally a threshing...

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The View from Mount Nebo

Photo from Christian Resource Institute. "This is the Jordan Valley as seen from the top of Mount Nebo in the Transjordan region (the modern Kingom of Jordan). The Jordan river is the faint diagonal line in the center of the photo, and the land beyond is Israel, the modern nation of Israel. This view is toward the northwest in the direction of Shec...

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Model of Herod's Temple

From K. C. Hanson's Gallery of Photos of Syria & Israel. Model of Herod's Temple; Holyland Hotel, Jerusalem. Note: The model shows Jerusalem as it must have looked in 63 AD., the end of the Second Temple era, just before the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70 AD. The models construction was supervised by Prof. Michael Avi Yonah and was based on ...

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Olive Tree on the Mount of Olives

Nestled amidst the ancient groves of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem stands a lone olive tree, weathered and wise, a silent witness to history. This very hill, named for the abundance of such trees, bore the weight of Jesus' presence on numerous occasions, as recounted in the gospels. Perhaps most poignantly, it was at the foot of the Mount, in th...

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Ba'al Ugaritic god of Storms & War

Ba'al Ugaritic god of Storms & War From K. C. Hanson's Gallery of Photos of Syria & Israel. Ba'al Ugaritic God of Storms & War (14th century BC) Louvre Museum, Paris...

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The famous Corinth Canal

shortens the voyage from the Adriatic to Piraeus by 200 miles [images] [Archaeology]...

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