The Old City of Jerusalem is about one square kilometer in size. The city wall from the 16th century was built by the Ottoman ruler Sultan Süleyman I (also called…

Ashdod in the Bible (English: Ashdod - Latin: Azotus) is a city in southwestern Israel. With about 207,000 inhabitants (as of 2007). It is located approximately 30 kilometers south of…

Mount Hermon in the Bible is located on the northern state border of Israel. The mountain massif is situated in the border area between Lebanon, Israel, and Syria. Mount Hermon…

About 150 meters north of the Paternoster Church is the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Here in the chapel, the last footprint of Christ is shown. The Chapel of the Ascension is located on the highest point of…

Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible are the two cities of sin. And two places of wickedness that God destroyed despite Abraham trying to intercede for them. The myth of…

Roman Judea is the political situation of the Holy Land at the beginning of the Roman period. It is described by the authors of Antiquity, notably the historian Flavius ​​Josephus…

The First Book of Kings paints an equally prestigious picture of the Kingdom of Solomon Hebrew monarchy under David's successor. The great monarch who had made the Israelite nation rich.…

Having lived to be one hundred and seventy-five years old, Abraham died. He was buried alongside his wife Sarah in a field he had bought at a place called the…

The last symbolic nucleus of the founding tale is the promised land in the Bible, which also generates a plurality of themes that we will trace the most important. Historically,…

While for the latter name in the biblical account, an etymology is given which aims to explain the name of Ammon, a similar etymology is not provided for the title…