JUC 09': A busy week!

This past weekend was filled with field studies and Homework.
On Friday Mark, Chris, and I had to the chance to go to the Israel Museum and the Bible lands museum and get a glimpse of a very cool model of Jerusalem during the time of Christ as well as see some of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was awesome to get a better lay of the city which Jesus would have actually walked through!

Here is the model of Jerusalem in the time of Christ

On Saturday our 2nd Temple Class went on a field study to two of Herod's fortresses in the desert. One was called Hyrcanus and is a huge mountain out in the desert. After that we headed to another fortress called Cyprus which is directly above Jericho, the air was clear and gave us an amazing view of the city and off into the hills of Moab. Because we had some extra time Dr. Write took us to a monastery called St. George Monastery. It was a sweet place built write into the cliff. It commemorates where Elijah was fed by Ravens and was cool to see even though it probably didn't happen here.

Standing of top of Hyrcanus, one of Herod's many palaces

Dr. Wright teaching us on top Cyprus another of Herod's fortresses right next to Jericho

On Sunday all of us spent our time writing several papers that were due for our midterms this coming week. This coming week we have three field studies. One today where we traveled to a synagogue and learned all about how a service works, one on Friday night where we will get to have shabbat dinner at a synagogue and then Saturday through Tuesday we have a four day field study in the Galilee. It should be a pretty sweet week!

Here are some pictures from the Negev field study

Me in front of the En Gedi falls