INTRODUCTION
1. John J. Parsons, “The Awe of the Lord,” hebrew4christians.com/Scripture/Parashah/Summaries/Eikev/Yirah/yirah.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
MEET THE GOOD RABBI: JASON SOBEL
1. Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 99a.
CHAPTER 5: CAESAREA AND HERODIUM
1. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XVII, translation available at sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/ant-17.htm.
2. Dean Smith, “Tomb of Herod the Great Discovered,” OpenTheWord.org, April 24, 2017, opentheword.org/2017/04/24/tomb-of-herod-the-great-discovered/.
3. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book XV, translation available at penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-15.html.
4. Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, Book I, translation available at sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-1.htm.
CHAPTER 6: BETHLEHEM
1. Mishnah Shekalim 7:4.
CHAPTER 7: NAZARETH
1. Talmud, Babylonian Sukkah 52.
2. “Inflection of tzel,” pealim.com, pealim.com/dict/4242-tzel/.
CHAPTER 9: THE SEVEN STREAMS
1. Oppians, Halieutica or Fishing, translation available at penelope.uchicago. edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Oppian/Halieutica/1.html.
CHAPTER 11: CAPERNAUM
1. Amir Tsarfati, “Ancient Synagogue Where Jesus Taught Discovered in Galilee,” Kehila News Israel, August 16, 2016, kehilanews.com/2016/08/16/ ancient-synagogue-where-jesus-taught-discovered-in-galilee/.
CHAPTER 16: THE POOL OF SILOAM
1. Bible Archaeology Society Staff, “The Siloam Pool: Where Jesus Healed the Blind Man,” Bible History Daily, July 2, 2017, biblicalarchaeology. org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/the-siloam-pool-where-jesus-healed-the-blind-man/.
2. Ibid.
3. Babylonian Talmud, Bava Batra 126b.
CHAPTER 18: THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
1. Rick Westhead, “Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives Cemetery Running Out of Room,” Toronto Star, December 16, 2012, thestar.com/news/world/2012/12/16/jerusalems_mount_of_olives_cemetery_running_out_of_room.html.
CHAPTER 22: GOLGOTHA
1. Dave Epstein, “Found and Lost?” in Nelson’s Annual Preacher’s Sourcebook, O. S. Hawkins, ed., vol. 3 (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2013), 161.
2. Ibid.
CHAPTER 24: THE UPPER ROOM AND TEMPLE COURTS
1. Moshe Weinfeld, Normative and Sectarian Judaism in the Second Temple Period (London: T & T Clark, 2005), p. 274.
CHAPTER 26: THE DEAD SEA
1. Ezekiel 47:8–9, JPS Tanakh, Bible Hub, biblehub.com/jps/ezekiel/47.htm.
2. Samantha Siegel, “Fish Living by the Dead Sea—Prophecy of Ezekiel Unfolding,” July 21, 2016, youtube.com/watch?v=x5A3GkuRaMI.
3. Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, “Fulfillment of the Dead Sea Prophecy Has Begun,” Breaking Israel News, July 27, 2016, breakingisraelnews.com/72711/fulfillment-dead-sea-prophecy-begun/#/.
CHAPTER 27: MASADA
1. Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am, “Masada, Tragic Fortress in the Sky,” Times of Israel, April 13, 2013, timesofisrael.com/masada-tragic-fortress-in-the-sky/.
2. Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, Book VII, chapter 9, translation available at sacred-texts.com/jud/josephus/war-7.htm.
CHAPTER 28: THE QUMRAN CAVES
1. Jewish Virtual Library, jewishvirtuallibrary.org/teacher-of-righteousness.
2. Jeffrey L. Sheler, “The Reason God Tested Abraham,” U.S. News and World Report, June 29, 1997, money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/1997/06/29/the-reason-god-tested-abraham.
CHAPTER 29: TEL AVIV
1. Henry Alford, “Seizing the Day in Tel Aviv,” New York Times, July 20, 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/travel/20telaviv.html.
CONCLUSION
1. “Watch Kathie Lee’s Touching Tribute to Husband Frank Gifford,” Today.com, August 17, 2015, www.today.com/video/watch-kathie-lees-touching-tribute-to-husband-frank-gifford-506707523589.