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Ancient crossroads city where Abraham first stopped in Canaan and Jacob bought land. Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman at its well.

From 20 BC Herod the Great rebuilt the second Temple on a vastly enlarged platform on Mount Moriah. "It has taken forty-six years to build t…

The latest gospel, reflective and theological. Opens not at Bethlehem but in eternity: "in the beginning was the Word." Built around seven s…

The poor person's grain — cheaper and coarser than wheat, it fed landless workers and widows across the Bible world.

The date palm — whose branches meant royal welcome and whose fruit fed the poor — stood at the centre of Palm Sunday.

The venomous snake of the Bible lands — vehicle of the Fall, instrument of judgment, and a type of the crucifixion in John 3:14.

The wool-covered grazing animal at the heart of the shepherd metaphor — the most-mentioned animal in the Bible.

The main predator of sheep flocks in the Bible lands — its arrival meant death, and Jesus used it to warn of false teachers.