Posts Tagged ‘Jerusalem’
History of Easter: The Players – Where are They Now?
Reading Time: 5 minutesHISTORY OF EASTER: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PLAYERS AFTERWARD Podcast version ou may be asking yourself, “Self,” you ask, “where are they now?” And well you might ask. What happened to our players AFTER the events in the Easter story?
Read MoreHistory of Holy Saturday
Reading Time: 4 minutesHistory of Holy Saturday he final day of Holy Week, the last day of Lent, is the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It is known as Holy Saturday. In Latin, it’s Sabbatum Sanctum, but it’s also known as Great and Holy Saturday, Low Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Hallelujah Saturday (in Portugal and Brazil),…
Read MoreHistory of Good Friday: the Crucifixion of Jesus
Reading Time: 2 minutesHISTORY OF GOOD FRIDAY Podcast version or centuries, pilgrims have walked the Via Dolorosa, “the way of sorrow” in Jerusalem, following Jesus’s path on Good Friday. Starting at the judgment seat of Pilate at the Antonia Fortress in the eastern part of the city, immediately north of the Temple, the path follows fourteen “Stations…
Read MoreHistory of Passover: the Jewish Pesach Holiday
Reading Time: 2 minutesHISTORY OF PASSOVER Podcast version unset tonight, April 1, marks the beginning of Passover. Exodus 12 in the Hebrew Bible tells the story of Passover from the life of Moses. Ten plagues were visited upon the Egyptian pharaoh (starring Yul Brynner in The Ten Commandments, though he was better in The King and I)…
Read MoreHistory of Easter: The Sanhedrin – Who Was This Council?
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF THE SANHEDRIN Podcast version he Greek word Συνέδριον, sunedrion, means literally “sitting together” and is usually translated as “council.” The New Testament refers to it alternately as “the Great Law-Court,” “the Court of Seventy-One,” and “the rulers and elders and scribes.” It was the supreme theocratic court of the Jews. The Sanhedrin…
Read MoreJerusalem in a Day, part 3
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY IN JERUSALEM: ISLAMIC TRADITION In Part 1, I discussed some of the Christian sites in the city of Jerusalem. In Part 2, I discussed the Jewish tradition. In this final article, I’ll examine the third most important Muslim site in the world, after Mecca and Medina. Urusalim (Jerusalem) gets its name from the Canaanites,…
Read MoreJerusalem in a Day, part 2
Reading Time: 5 minutesHISTORY IN JERUSALEM: JEWISH TRADITION In Part 1, I discussed some of the Christian sites in the city of Jerusalem. Here, we discuss the Jewish tradition. In 1995 Jerusalem celebrated 3,000 years of the City of David, commemorating when King David entered the city and made it his capital, rather than Hebron. It was a…
Read MoreJerusalem in a Day, part 1
Reading Time: 6 minutes HISTORY IN JERUSALEM: CHRISTIAN TRADITION Is it possible to see Jerusalem in a day? I did. Twenty eight years ago, following a trip to Israel, I published three articles. I was speaking on technology in Tel Aviv and had only 24 hours to visit Jerusalem. The city may have changed, but the historical sites…
Read MoreHistory of Passover
Reading Time: < 1 minutePASSOVER This year, the evening at sunset April 8 marks the beginning of Passover. Exodus 12 in the Bible tells the story of Passover from the life of Moses. Ten plagues were visited upon the Egyptian pharaoh (starring Yul Brenner, but he was much better in “The King and I”) to get his attention to…
Read MoreHistory of Passover
Reading Time: < 1 minutePASSOVER This year, the evening at sunset April 19 marks the beginning of Passover. Exodus 12 in the Bible tells the story of Passover from the life of Moses. Ten plagues were visited upon the Egyptian pharaoh (starring Yul Brenner, but he was much better in “The King and I”) to get his attention to…
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