Journeys

Distance changes how a story reads. Pick a journey to see the stops in order, the ground between them, and what the excavated record does and does not fix about the route.

Abraham's migration

Middle Bronze Age setting

From southern Mesopotamia to the hill country of Canaan, and down into Egypt

SINAIGOSHENNEGEVJUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISMOABEDOMAMMONGILEADBASHANPHOENICIASYRIAARABIAMESOPOTAMIABABYLONIAASSYRIAASIA MINORCYPRUSThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Gulf of AqabaGulf of SuezNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea12345678N200 km

8 stops · roughly 2,283 km end to end

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The Exodus and wilderness years

Late Bronze Age setting

Out of the delta, to the mountain, and forty years on the desert margin

SINAIGOSHENNEGEVJUDEASAMARIAPEREAMOABEDOMAMMONGILEADThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Gulf of AqabaGulf of SuezNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea123456789N100 km

9 stops · roughly 923 km end to end

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The Galilean ministry

Roman Judea, c. AD 28-30

A working circuit around one lake, and the road up to Jerusalem

JUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISAMMONGILEADBASHANNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea1234567891011N50 km

11 stops · roughly 614 km end to end

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Across to Macedonia and eighteen months in Corinth

JUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISMOABAMMONGILEADBASHANPHOENICIASYRIAASIA MINORGREECECYPRUSCRETEThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Aegean SeaNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea123456789101112131415N200 km

15 stops · roughly 3,059 km end to end

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Three years in Ephesus, and the collection carried to Jerusalem

GOSHENNEGEVJUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISMOABAMMONGILEADBASHANPHOENICIASYRIAASIA MINORGREECECYPRUSCRETEThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Aegean SeaNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea1234567891011N200 km

11 stops · roughly 3,235 km end to end

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A prisoner's passage, a winter storm and a shipwreck

SINAIGOSHENNEGEVJUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISMOABEDOMAMMONGILEADBASHANPHOENICIASYRIAASIA MINORGREECEITALYCYPRUSCRETEThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Aegean SeaBlack SeaGulf of AqabaGulf of SuezAdriatic SeaNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea12345678910N200 km

10 stops · roughly 2,976 km end to end

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Judah carried to Babylon, and the road back under Persia

SINAINEGEVJUDEASAMARIAGALILEEPEREADECAPOLISMOABEDOMAMMONGILEADBASHANPHOENICIASYRIAARABIAMESOPOTAMIABABYLONIAASSYRIACYPRUSThe Great Sea (Mediterranean)Gulf of AqabaGulf of SuezPersian GulfNileEuphratesTigrisJordanSea of GalileeDead Sea123456N200 km

6 stops · roughly 2,751 km end to end

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