Day 9: Making Difficult Decisions

Aren Maeir presenting a variety of architectural finds from the 1st & 2nd Century BCE
(Amit Dagan, our tour guide, in background)

Day 9 started with a study tour of Emek Yizrael, Har Carmel, and Har Gilboa.  We read texts from the first book of Kings and discussed the story of Elijah the Prophet.  To look out over these rolling mountains while reading the texts made the TaNaKh come to life and feel like we had traveled back in time.


In the evening we returned to campus to hear archeologist, Arn Maeir (see above), share some incredible personal stories about his excavations; and if this was not enough, he then took the group to his archeological laboratory to see, touch, and even hold ancient artifacts over 5000 years old!  It was a surreal experience to hold these original ancient pieces, as well as other artifacts from communities mentioned in the Torah.


What a day!