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Pella, City of a Thousand Faces: Jacob and Esau

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 ...

Tracing Ancient Footsteps in Modern Jordan

Few landscapes gather as many narrative threads as Jordan. Within its rugged plateaus, river valleys, and desert plains lie locations tied to Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Elijah, John the Baptist, the Magi, and Jesus. Each is drawn from a different era ...

Mount Nebo Today: Mosaics, Memory, and Horizon

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 ...

The Friar Who Made the Mountain Speak

Towers of devotion in the Desert: Umm ar-Rasas and the Stylite Monks

In the otherworldly landscape of the Jordanian desert lies Umm ar-Rasas, an archaeological site that preserves one of the most distinctive vestiges of asceticism in the ...

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