When the Gospels say that Jesus crossed to “the other side of the Jordan,” they do not point to an abstract space. They gesture toward a concrete, layered geography: Transjordan, a belt of land between river and desert where cities shaped by ...
One of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis recounts how the patriarch Jacob, alone at night beside the ford of the Jabbok River in the region of Gilead, wrestles until dawn with a mysterious ...
Just a few kilometers from Madaba, Mount Nebo impresses not with its height, but with its enduring presence. Rising from the western highlands of Jordan, this site—associated since ...
