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Jordan Research Trip, Post #11

2 Comments / Bible Lands, Biblical Archaeology, New Testament, Old Testament / By Dr. William Barrick

This final post reporting on my research trip to Jordan includes two sites we visited on our first day. I’ve done so in order to tie together some of the significance aspects of our visit to Gerasa and our later examination of sites in Israel. Elijah’s Hill / Tell Elias In order to identify sites …

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Jordan Research Trip, Post #10

2 Comments / Bible Lands, Biblical Archaeology, Genesis, Old Testament / By Dr. William Barrick

Where should we expect to find the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah? I already addressed this matter in part in Post #9 about Lot’s Cave in the vicinity of Zoar. In that post I used the evidence of the biblical text, of toponomy (linguistics of place names), and the Medeba Map. In addition, we …

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