Let's back up to Sunday...we left the Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem at 9 am, walked out the Damascus Gate and caught the light rail for Central Station, walked to our waiting bus...arrived at Revadim where the kibbutz is located in an hour. We washed pottery for an hour...had lunch and washed more pottery and yes we are now caught up. At 6 I Skyped with the folks at Village, sorry about the siren, those darn rockets! Called back...was really fun to see and hear familiar faces and voices!
Got a pretty good nights sleep...up at 4:45 am and on the bus at 5:15 and up to Area F by 6! The walk up is getting a little easier every day...by my last day on Friday it will be easy, well not really! If you look at the picture on top Area F is at the very top.
Today the area I work in, we found a section of the city wall. To those who are studying Tel Es-Safi they were pretty excited, because they can see how that Philistine Wall is continued from the middle section of Area F to the lower section. And it is pretty cool to uncover something that has been buried for some 3000 plus years. I am becoming quite adept of using a small hand pick, trowel, picking out pottery fragments, bone, flint, etc. the day goes so fast!
We had only one siren go off at the tel, we hunkered down in the 9-10 century b.c. remains and watch as the Iron Dome does its thing! After lunch at the Kibbutz I wanted to take a name, but didn't happen, got in a shower and rinsed out some clothes and Jesse the office coordinator stopped by and told me that I was changing rooms...so I packed up all my stuff and moved from a room with 5 guys to one with few people and more room...score!
At 4 we went to tour Tel Burna, when is the Biblical city of Libnah, Numbers 33:20; Joshua 22:9 and many other references. It's exciting when archaeology confirms the Biblical record! Got back for the same old Salad Bar supper...every meal is the same. When I get back to Newark airport I'm going to have another smash burger classic!
After supper we hung out on the lawn watching for rocket...as of yet not a one! I Skyped with Lynda, that was fun and the I did FaceTime with Joyanne while she was at work...sorry Joyanne, but how many times do you get a call for Israel?
Got a pretty good nights sleep...up at 4:45 am and on the bus at 5:15 and up to Area F by 6! The walk up is getting a little easier every day...by my last day on Friday it will be easy, well not really! If you look at the picture on top Area F is at the very top.
Today the area I work in, we found a section of the city wall. To those who are studying Tel Es-Safi they were pretty excited, because they can see how that Philistine Wall is continued from the middle section of Area F to the lower section. And it is pretty cool to uncover something that has been buried for some 3000 plus years. I am becoming quite adept of using a small hand pick, trowel, picking out pottery fragments, bone, flint, etc. the day goes so fast!
We had only one siren go off at the tel, we hunkered down in the 9-10 century b.c. remains and watch as the Iron Dome does its thing! After lunch at the Kibbutz I wanted to take a name, but didn't happen, got in a shower and rinsed out some clothes and Jesse the office coordinator stopped by and told me that I was changing rooms...so I packed up all my stuff and moved from a room with 5 guys to one with few people and more room...score!
At 4 we went to tour Tel Burna, when is the Biblical city of Libnah, Numbers 33:20; Joshua 22:9 and many other references. It's exciting when archaeology confirms the Biblical record! Got back for the same old Salad Bar supper...every meal is the same. When I get back to Newark airport I'm going to have another smash burger classic!
After supper we hung out on the lawn watching for rocket...as of yet not a one! I Skyped with Lynda, that was fun and the I did FaceTime with Joyanne while she was at work...sorry Joyanne, but how many times do you get a call for Israel?
Four days on the dig site left...I'm sure it will go fast and in a week I'll be back in the good old US of A! Five Guys on Tuesday in Lawrence! Thanks for all the prayers..keep them coming!
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