Thoughts and stories, by Pal

For my last entry about my trip to Egypt, Petra, Jordan, and Israel, I will put various items in which may be unrelated, as I want to include all the notes I took!  I hope readers have enjoyed it.  Writing it has brought many inspiring memories back, and I'm writing it as much for myself as others, so I can come back and read them now and then. The last day, a Monday, April 30th, 2018, We went first to the Mount of Olives, and the Orson Hyde Memorial Park.   I took the above photo, With Ashlynn and Whitney Christian, but there are interesting facts on the internet: The  Church of All Nations , also known as the  Church  or  Basilica of the Agony , is a  Roman Catholic  church located on the  Mount of Olives  in  Jerusalem , next to the Garden of  Gethsemane . It enshrines a section of bedrock where  Jesus  is said to have  prayed  before his arrest. Close by is the Orson Hyde Memorial Park.  It has an interesting history.  The following is from the October 1991 En

In 1946 the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, in 11 caves in this area. Here in Qumran, there was a colony of scribes, who copied many copies of the books in the Old Testament.  Those were the records now called the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Parts of all books of the Bible have been found in them.   The Dead Sea Scrolls The Psalms Scroll (11Q5), one of the 972 texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a partial Hebrew transcription Material Papyrus , parchment and  bronze Writing Mostly  Hebrew ;  Aramaic ,  Greek  and  Nabataean-Aramaic Created Est. 408  BCE  to 318  CE Discovered 1946/47–1956 Present location Various Dead Sea Scrolls  (also Qumran Caves Scrolls) are  ancient Jewish  religious, mostly  Hebrew , manuscripts found in the  Qumran Caves  near the  Dead Sea . Caves at Qumran Many thousands of written fragments have been discovered in the Dead Sea area. They represent the remnants of larger manuscripts damaged by natural causes or through human interference