The Significance of Locations
For any Christian who has been to Israel, locations in the Bible, and even the distances between them, start to matter in a way they never did before. I’ve been envisioning for some time a world where walking was the main mode of transportation. In this world, how significant is altitude! And yearly rainfall! But let’s just explore altitude for a bit, since yearly rainfall takes more explaining for Israel.

The Significance of Altitude
Common travel routes were usually in valleys, which were easier to walk along than climbing tiring hills. Look-out posts were on tall hills so they could visually communicate since they didn’t have any other communication means. And vantage points during a war—would you prefer to fight uphill, or down? Would you build a fortress at the bottom of a hill or the top? But where would you find water? And if there was a siege on your fortress, how could you protect your water source from the enemy?

The Significance of a Database on Locations
Would you be more interested if you could easily click to see a map of where that place was that you find in the Bible? If numerous facts about a location were only another click away? If you could easily find the history of a location despite its name changing three times in two different eras? What if you could easily find those five ways a place was spelled due to transliteration differences, frequently found in different maps and Bible versions? This database, Lord willing, will offer significant potential for these things in years to come.
Changes for my website
Praise the Lord! My students finished helping me with the latest technology and now I’ll be busy all summer with improving my presentations and organizing my material to significantly improve your experience here. If you want to keep tabs on the latest edits, check out the bottom of my blog index.
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My Plans for Blogging
My story of forgiveness and healing is quite unrelated to envisioning the Bible world. But since our world is sin and pain infested, I suspect many will want to hear more about my personal experience. I anticipate writing a couple of blogs about this, but mostly I’ll focus on envisioning the Bible world.
Heather, Christmas 2021

Plans for Improved Website:
The following documentary links are gradually going to disappear from here this summer, appearing instead under the menu option “Tour Israel.” There, I’ll cover more introduction and pictures to the areas these links cover.
Documentary Links
- Caesarea Maritima – Intro to Archaeology (7 m. 7 s.)
- Caesarea Maritima – Stories from the Bible (12 m. 30 s.)
- Megiddo Part 1 (1 m. 31 s.)
- Megiddo Part 2 (1 m. 44 s.)
- Valley of Armageddon (10 m. 32 s.)
- Desert and science potential (6 m. 45 s.)
- Limitations of Archaeology (4 m. 23 s.)
- Interpretations of Archaeology (5 m. 32 s.)
- Archaeology at the Church in Nazareth (1 m. 50 s.)
- Nazareth Village, Part 1 (2 m. 17 s.)
- Nazareth Village, Part 2 (2 m. 38 s.)
- Nazareth Village, Part 3 (3 m. 14 s.)
- Nazareth Village, Part 4 (4 m. 2 s.)
- Sepphoris (4 m. 4 s.)
- Capernaum, Introduction (3 m. 57 s.)
- Capernaum, Part 2 (3 m. 40 s.)
- Capernaum, Part 3 (4 m. 51 s.)
- Capernaum, Part 4 (1 m. 47 s.)
- Sea of Galilee (2 m. 59 s.)
- Crucifixion (5 m. 57 s.)
- Qasrin, Part 1 (2 m. 17 s.)
- Qasrin, Part 2 (57 s.)
- Qasrin, Part 3 (1 m. 5 s.)
- Qasrin, Part 4 (1 m. 28 s.)
- Christ’s Ministry Elsewhere (4 m. 14 s.)
- Zealots, Part 1 (1 m. 46 s.)
- Zealots, Part 2 (1 m. 3 s.)
- Jerusalem (4 m. 41 s.)
- Locations for Christs Crucifixion, Part 1 (3 m. 44 s.)
- Locations for Christ’s Crucifixion, Part 2 (2 m. 16 s.)
- Locations for Christ’s Crucifixion, Part 3 (5 m. 1 s.)
- Temple Mount/Christ’s Temptations, Part 1 (3 m. 18 s.)
- Temple Mount/Christ’s Temptations, Part 2 (1 m. 51 s.)
- Temple Mount/Christ’s Temptations, Part 3 (1 m. 29 s.)
- Temple Mount/Christ’s Temptations, Part 4 (1 m. 40 s.)
- Temple Mount/Christ’s Temptations, Part 5 (36 s.)
- Temple Mount, Southern Steps (3 m. 19 s.)
- Temple Mount (3 m. 2 s.)
- Against hypocrisy, Part 1 (3 m. 27 s.)
- Against hypocrisy, Part 2 (3 m. 54 s.)
- Against hypocrisy, Part 3 (3 m. 18 s.)
- Corruption of Leadership (5 m. 26 s.)
- Destroying the Temple Mount (2 m. 7 s.)
- Traveling dangers and difficulties (4 m. 30 s.)
- Earthquakes in Israel (3 m. 28 s.)
- Epilogue (2 m. 17 s.)