On the most perfect, blue-skied April day of 2024, we arrived at the Ark Encounter. The structure is spectacular in scale, both inside and outside, and so I scanned my pass with an open mind, genuinely wanting it to be more “amazing” than “embarrassment.”
Was there no room for Mary and Joseph in an “inn” or in an “upper room”?
In the Hebrew, the words that our Bibles tend to render as “Red Sea” are yam suph. Yam means “sea.” No problem there. But suph is a little trickier….
We don’t know much about when or how the Ark of the Covenant disappeared, but we do know that it was never inside Ezra’s second Temple.
Armageddon means the “end of the world” to most of us today, thanks to popular culture. But that definition isn’t quite accurate.
According to Jewish tradition, Esau’s frustration with Jacob did not end in Genesis 33; he challenged the sale of his birthright as Jacob’s body was being interred in the Cave of Machpelah with his parents’.
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Copper the basset hound travels the world with his friend, Amanda, while she digs on archaeological sites. On this trip to Bethlehem, the ancient city where Jesus was born, this adventurous dog follows his nose to an ancient stone manger. There he meets a new friend who tells him all about life in first-century Judaea and the night a special baby was born in the house Amanda’s excavating.
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