ISRAEL PHOTOS III  -- A COLLECTION OF PHOTOS FROM ISRAEL 

WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SCENES AND SITES PERTINENT TO THE STUDY OF CHRISTIANITY

The Old Roman Road from Jericho to Jerusalem



April 2005

Looking east near the mouth of Wadi Qelt. The modern aqueduct is close to the course of an old Roman aqueduct that brought water from a spring upstream to western Jericho (Eriha). Herod built a palace near the the white plastic greenhouses along the dry wash (left of center). This black top road may have been over the top or parallel to the course of an Ottoman road built close to the lines of the old Roman road as one traveled either down to Jericho or up to Jerusalem.


Sephoris 4/05

This is a Roman road photo from the ruins of Sephoris near Nazareth, the stone pavers showed tracks from ancient wagons in the Roman-Byzantine marketplace. Many Roman roads contained no pavers and others that used to be of made of pavers are gone as the stone was robbed for other uses.


Feb 2002

The remains of a 1st century pavement below the Western Wall/Ophel Historical Park, Jerusalem


 Jan 2006

The photo is of a late Roman staircase cut into the rock by hammer and chisel at Akrabiim/Scorpian Pass in the Negev.
The road here was passable by people and pack animals.


Jan 2006

In flat places the ancient road was a beaten track cleared of stones. This road grade was above the Scorpian Pass ascent near the ruined fort Horbat Zafir in the Negev.

George A. Barton reported a Roman road whose line of pavers was yet visible intersecting another Roman road 4 miles north of Jerusalem that led down to Caesarea. He presumed this was the road that was used by the Romans to transport Paul to Casearea (Acts 23:23-24) in his Archaeology and the Bible 7th ed., 1937.

Parable of the Mustard Seed
     A Mustard Field Along Highway 87-North Shore of Galilee
     Mustard Seeds in the Palm of a Hand
     Mustard Flowers
     Giant Mustard
     Upper Most Seats of the Synagogue
The Fig Tree
     Mt of Olives Fig Tree, April 12-13, 2005
     Fig and Pomegranite Trees Below Siloam in Jerusalem
     Sycomore Fig Tree
The Good Shepherd
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats
     Goat Herder
Camels
Ritual Cleansing
Shechem
     The Olive Harvest of Samaria
     Mt. Ebal
     Olive Tree
Pearl of Great Price
A First Century Synagogue at Gamala
     Overview of Gamala
Modern Galilee Fishing Boats
Kursi
     Caves and/or Tombs
     Steep Slope Near Kursi
Hippos
Feeding the 5,000
     On the Mountain
     Walking on Water
     Ramot-Tzelon area
Mt. Hermon
The Pools of Bethesda in Jerusalem
     Healing Pools
     Crusader Chapel and St. Ann Church
Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem
     Hezekiah's Tunnel
     Overlook to Siloam
Tower of Siloam
A Watch Tower in a Vineyard/Olive Grove
     Grape Vines at Beth Horan
     Towers
Mt. Precipice
     South Face
     Summit
     Over the edge
     Measuring Line
     View of Nazareth from near Megiddo
Nazareth
     The Basilica of the Annunciation
Capernaum
Healing a Paralytic in Capernaum
Bethsaida
Waterskins and Wineskins
The Fish and the Coin
     Barbel
A Denarius
Casting Out a Demon
The Road to Jericho
     Old Roman Road
     Wilderness Above Jericho
     Old Jericho
Western Wall
Gethsemane and the Cave of Gethsemane
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
Rolling Stone Tombs - Jerusalem
    Other Rolling Stone Tombs
Tiberias
Solar Power in Israel
Salt of the earth
Chorazin

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