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One-Day Study Tour at Caesarea Maritima

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Theme:Going...going...gone: What Jerusalem was to the Jews, so Caesarea was to the Pagans

Logistics:

  • Time: 07:30 - 17:00 (7:30am to 5:00pm)
  • Starting Location: Binyanei Ha'Uma (Jerusalem Convention Center Parking Area)
  • Return Location: Binyanei Ha'Uma (Jerusalem Convention Center Parking Area)
  • Route and Transportation: Driving west on Highway 1 to link up with Israeli toll-road Highway 6 north.
  • Food: Bring money for lunch and snacks. There are plenty of different eating options available in the area.
  • Requirements: Bible, hat, water, good walking or hiking shoes, small backpack, money for entrance fees to National Park sites (details on registration) Transportation: your own rental car or private taxi

Research Topics and Areas of Study:

  • Stop at Antipatris:
  • - In the Footsteps of Paul: "...And he called to him two of the centurions, and said, "Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen." They were also to provide mounts to put Paul on and bring him safely to Felix the governor...So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. But the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks. And when these had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him. (Acts 23:23-25; 31-33)
  • Caesarea Maritima (Entrance through the South Gate):
  • - Herod, King of Judea: the first "Green Grocer" of Ancient Europe
  • - Personalities of Caesarea: Corneilius (Acts 10); Paul (Acts 23); Origen (his school of Christianity); Eusebius (writer of the Onomastican); Akiva (Jewish Rabbi and Martyr; Abayu (Talmudic Rabbi and Scholar. At his passing, it was said of him - "even the marble pillars of Caesarea wept" ); Pontius Pilate; Kefa (Peter).
  • - The Roman extreme culture of entertainment, bathhouses, and healing (Dionysus, Apollo, Ascalapeus)
  • - Roman theatres and their construction techniques: the Cavea, Vomitoria, Orchestera, Scaenae Frons, Lodgion, Proskenion, Vellum, Parodos.
  • - Late Roman period Jewish and Pagan burial customs
  • - The Karkares, Meta, Meta Secunda, Biga, and Quadriga. What are these terms and how do they relate to the Hippodrome of Caesarea?
  • - Where exactly was Sha'ul (Paul) put on trial, to stand for judgment in the face of Felix on one occasion (Acts 23:24-25) and Agrippa and Berenice (Acts 25:13) on another occasion?
  • - Roman bathhouse use and construction: the Palestra, Piscina, Tepidarium, Caldarium, and Tubulae. It's all very interesting in helping us to understand Roman culture in the days of Jerusalem's Second Temple Period.
  • - Ancient Mediterranean harbors and Herod's high-tech building project; how he built the harbor using wooden crates filled with boatslana - the concrete of ancient days.