Holy Mountains
The Holy Land: Holy Mountains I could never have imagined stepping in biblical places and names reserved as snippets from Sunday evening Gospels like Beersheba, Samaria, Dan, Mt. Nebo, Mt. Hermon, Mt. Tabor or the land of the twelve tribes like Issachar, Naphtali and Zebulun, etc. I admit to my ignorance about the Holy Land geography. I did not know where Palestine or Jerusalem lay. We passed Jericho without me knowing that we were in Palestine. We sailed on the Sea of Galilee, which our guide referred to as the ‘Holy Triangle’ because it was bounded by three holy mountains: Mount Hermon, Mount Tabor and the Mountain of the Beatitudes. We also saw another mountain and the cliffs of Mt. Arbel from the water, but it was not part of the Holy Triangle because no evidence was found that Jesus went there. Most of the important synagogues, temples and churches in Israel were built on top of the hills and mountains though. Mountain of the Beatitudes A...