JERUSALEM JOURNAL: PREFACE

It has been a little more than three weeks since our group, the Talbot Bible Lands graduate students, have returned from our trip to Israel, one which I believe has been the trip of my life. While pictures are important, I think that it is the words that are even more meaningful. Therefore, I plan to do two things. The first, and I believe the most important, is to take the words that I wrote in my journal and combine them with some of the photos that I took during the trip. The second is to take my photographs and either put them up on a website or make them available for download to those who are interested.

So that I can make some sense out of what I am doing, I have divided my trip up into segments, the first being the Old City of Jerusalem, where we spent our first five days of study. I will post my journal notes with pictures; but the complete first part without pictures, which I posted previously, will still be available for those who still want to read it, until I have subsequently posted all those journal notes with pictures. I will then also attempt to do a photo presentation that will cover each period that corresponds with this blog. It will take a while, of course, but I hope that it will assist me in my continued learning as I continue to study the Bible, and all the places that we visited are related to the Bible in one way or another. It will also give me a way of sharing my experiences with all of you who read my blog and those who, in the future, might be interested in my words and pictures.