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| Biblical Resources Scripture Garden at Tantur |
Today I’d like to share with you the first part of a walk through a Scripture Garden that my wife Karen and I used to work at in Israel. This garden was located halfway between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. It's no longer there today, but has inspired many imitators that carry on the tradition. What was in the Scripture Garden? More than two dozen full-sized models and restorations of objects from daily life in Bible times.
The purpose of the garden was to help you understand the imagery of the Bible. Many times we read about different things like wells or threshing floors or wine presses or olive presses in the Bible, but we really don’t understand what they were or how they worked. And since so much of the imagery of the Bible depends on this knowledge, we often don’t understand the meaning of this imagery, and so don’t understand the meaning of the verse or section it appears in.