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...summer he briefly visited Ain-Mugharah (Spring of the Caves). "It's smack on the Sinai border," he says, "and it's a little dangerous. A cliff overhangs the spring; anyone can shoot down." There are many ancient sites there from the time of Abraham and the Judean Kings, but "no one goes there now," Glueck says, "except a few Bedouins, the Egyptian infiltrators and an archaeologist like...
...attention was riveted to TIME as I rode a bus climbing into the Judean Hills from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You could not have chosen a more appropriate time than Passover to discuss the modern Pharaoh who glares across the Red Sea at us. As the bus wound higher into the hills, the elderly lady seated next to me looked at the expression on my face, then eyed Nasser's picture, and, patting my arm, she said, "Never mind, never mind. God will protect us. Fifteen years ago we had nothing here at all. Now see," and she nodded...
...advice to Von Hoerner is to have him set aside his red-hot mathematical pencil. His longed for advice has arrived. In fact, it came a little over 1,900 years ago-loud and clear. Illiterate shepherds on Judean hills understood. A physician by the name of Luke decoded the message...
...obvious sincerity of Mahalia's belief moves audiences even when they cannot understand her words. "I believe everything," said she. "I believe Joshua did pray to God and the sun stood still " On her Israeli trip she became frightened while traveling over the twisting roads of the rugged Judean Hills, until a "Spirit" reprimanded her: "If Joseph could bring Mary over these rough mountains on a donkey, you oughta be ashamed of yourself, Mahalia." In fact, the whole trip was like a homecoming. "The very first gospel singers," says Mahalia Jackson were them angels who sang 'Peace...
...hill through olive groves, past herds of goat and sheep, come the worshipers on Christmas Eve to the quiet Judean town. Peasants walk to Bethlehem wearing medieval costumes, silk-hatted diplomats swirl into Manger Square in black limousines. And in entering the Church of the Nativity, all bend low to pass through the tiny door called The Needle...