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We began the day with a long drive from Tiberias to the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is the lowest place on earth and lies between the mountains of Israel and Jordan. In this dry and barren desert land is where David found refuge from King Saul hiding in one of the many caves near the spring of En Gedi. The rocky, dry hillsides are full of caves that could have been where David hid. In the nearby area a small settlement existed near the Dead Sea. It was here the Essenes, a small group of Jewish men, copied the Old Testament onto parchment made of sheepskins. Then they hid them in clay jars in the nearby caves of Qumran. Found two thousand years later in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have given us numerous Biblical manuscripts, dating back to the 1st century B.C. One of the very moving places in the desert is Masada—a city built upon a sheer mountaintop. It is the place where the Jews, in their final revolt against the Romans in A.D. 73, saw that all hope was lost after a seven-month siege by the Romans and decided to kill their families and then themselves rather than becoming slaves. The excavations of this incredible site reveal a remarkable way of life.
We began the day with a long drive from Tiberias to the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is the lowest place on earth and lies between the mountains of Israel and Jordan. In this dry and barren desert land is where David found refuge from King Saul hiding in one of the many caves near the spring of En Gedi. The rocky, dry hillsides are full of caves that could have been where David hid. In the nearby area a small settlement existed near the Dead Sea. It was here the Essenes, a small group of Jewish men, copied the Old Testament onto parchment made of sheepskins. Then they hid them in clay jars in the nearby caves of Qumran. Found two thousand years later in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have given us numerous Biblical manuscripts, dating back to the 1st century B.C. One of the very moving places in the desert is Masada—a city built upon a sheer mountaintop. It is the place where the Jews, in their final revolt against the Romans in A.D. 73, saw that all hope was lost after a seven-month siege by the Romans and decided to kill their families and then themselves rather than becoming slaves. The excavations of this incredible site reveal a remarkable way of life.
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