I've been trying to write a brief introduction for each portion of our journey - but I don't know what I'd even write about for this portion. Religions have emerged and religious wars have been fought over this land for milleniums. Jerusalem/Bethlehem/the Dead Sea/The Sea of Galilee - Israel is the holy land of at least 3 major religions and many off shoots. It would be presumptuous of me to even try to tell the story.
So why are we here? We don't intend to pray at the Wall, we don't intend to be baptized in the Dead Sea, we aren't really interested in the Dome of the Rock from a religious standpoint. Maybe we just want to get a sense of a place that has pulled so many people for so many centuries back to it's womb. The thought of seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls excites me, the thought of seeing sites of religious pilgrimages intrigues Larry. We're historians. That's why we're here.
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