Expeditions

Banias: The Fountain of the Jordan We were recently devising an itinerary for 44 people—most of them young—traveling to Israel. They felt they simply had to see all the sites associated with the Bible—which meant a lot of ruins! We knew we’d need some relief from the heat and the glare of sun on stone. We wondered, was there a site where we could combine the thrill of Biblical archaeology with some cool shade and the sound of running water? Where, in the words of the Scottish Bible scholar George Adam Smith, whose Historical Geography of the Holy Land […]