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Self-Directed Touring and Driving
![Cars entering old city a picture of the tops of cars in front of a gate of the old city of Jerusalem](https://i0.wp.com/tourisraelbyremote.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Cars-entering-old-city.webp?fit=461%2C412&ssl=1)
Going to museums, etc., on my own for a week, and especially renting a car for a day, was a little hard on my nerves. Additionally, this depends on how much you’re used to driving where people take baffling risks, and/or how much of a risk-taker you are.
Speed with precision is their specialty. Incessantly honking the horn around Jerusalem itself just means “as soon as that light changes you’d better move.” Showing no shame over anything is the norm. English signs will help you on the main highways, but you’ll likely only see Hebrew if you get off them.
If instead, you want to go on a guided tour with a group, local tour guides will likely talk about current day events about one-third of the time. Another third will be for medieval events, and Bible time events will get the last third of the time. It will be information overload for all the first-timers, so bringing a recording device is ideal (with lots of memory). Afterward, everything becomes a blur with too much to remember.
This type of tour will also likely include too much focus for anyone’s preference on churches at holy sites. Unless you actually like the medieval churches, art, and history. (See example, Church of Annunciation.)
Would you regret your arrangements for a trip to Israel if you didn’t make it worth your while? A week of looking at things without someone to explain and tell me interesting insights was plenty for me.
If you want to focus on envisioning Bible times, there are a few experts that I would be happy to go with. A couple I’ve never heard myself, but have had highly recommended to me, is Dr. Doug Bookman or Dr. John Currid.
Guided Tours with Local Tour Guides
![Church-of-Annunciation a picture of the church built where archaeologists believe the first-century Nazareth was](https://i0.wp.com/tourisraelbyremote.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Church-of-Annunciation.webp?fit=462%2C412&ssl=1)
Touring Israel – To Focus Best on Bible Time Eras
![Doug-Bookman a picture of Dr. Bookman teaches at the Shepherds Theological Seminary and wrote a few books](https://i0.wp.com/tourisraelbyremote.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Doug-Bookman.webp?fit=291%2C363&ssl=1)
2 Experts I’d Recommend Touring Israel With
Dr. Bookman teaches at the Shepherds Theological Seminary and wrote a few books. My parents heard him speak and thought he was the best.
Dr. John Currid is the author of numerous books including the commentary on Leviticus that I quote lots in my blogs. A Christian man I met highly recommended him, and I’m very happy I read his Leviticus commentary.
I’d also recommend the Biblical Resources Center and Nazareth Village. These 2 organizations provided all the highlights of my trips in 2002 and in 2004. But since I learned so much from both of them, I decided I’d better create 2 more web pages with a better introduction to each of them.
![John-Currid a picture of Dr John Currid who is the author of numerous books including the commentary on Leviticus](https://i0.wp.com/tourisraelbyremote.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/John-Currid.webp?fit=290%2C363&ssl=1)
![heathervideotaping-cropped a picture of me holding a camcorder in 2002 on a high hill looking over the Golan Heights](https://i0.wp.com/tourisraelbyremote.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/heathervideotaping-cropped.webp?fit=377%2C452&ssl=1)
The first time I went to Israel was with Friends of Israel and a local tour guide. They took us to the Biblical Resources Center for an evening, which at that time was still in Jerusalem. My visit there convinced me that, when I went back to Israel in 2004, I should go with this organization, instead. Dr James Fleming is the Christian archaeologist I went with in 2004, and Hannaniah Pinto was his assistant.
See more about me at my main website under About Me.
Hannaniah took us on the first half of the tour north to Galilee. He grew up in Brazil and went to Israel right after college. He lived there 20 years. Then the tourism industry in Israel was dying and opportunity opened for the Biblical Resources staff to open their facility in Lagrange, Georgia, instead.
Hannaniah co-authored the book “Jesus’ Last Night with His Disciples” (with Dr Jim Fleming) which has become one of my most favorite books. Check it out!
The 2 Experts I Was Touring Israel With Myself, That I’d Recommend
![Hannaniah-Pinto a picture of Hannaniah Pinto, who lived in Israel 20 years. When the tourism industry in Israel was dying, Hannaniah and and the Biblical Resources staff moved to open their new facility in Lagrange, Georgia when the door opened for them there,](https://i0.wp.com/tourisraelbyremote.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Hannaniah-Pinto.webp?fit=291%2C363&ssl=1)
![James-Fleming a picture of Dr James Fleming, the Christian archaeologist I went with on my second trip to Israel](https://i0.wp.com/tourisraelbyremote.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/James-Fleming.webp?fit=291%2C362&ssl=1)
Dr Fleming went to Israel in 1969 when he took a year’s graduate course in history, geography and archaeology of the Bible at the Hebrew University. “That was when he became ‘hooked’ on Israel.” Listening to him was a lot like listening to someone reciting an encyclopedia set, except he could make it all so much more interesting.
Additionally, Dr Fleming had numerous lectures printed. I quote from them a little in my blogs and found them most helpful especially in my early days of research.
These 4 experts I list on this webpage don’t likely all go to Israel every year, but it’s well worth saving and waiting to go with them the next time they are going on the next Israel trip. Make your next trip to Israel worthwhile, when you do go. Lastly, bring a recording device!
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Tour Israel by remote through my website with a Christian archaeologist. Find pictures, video clips and information to envision the Bible world better.
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I'm sooo excited. My student discovered a way to get my research database online without waiting for possibly years yet to get my programmer friend to find time to do it. The student is working on it now. The demo that was there before (www.envisionbibleworld.com/about-database/standardentries) is being replaced because the entries there from before now were from 2016. But I've been researching lots since then, so he's updating the entries & making it so I can input regularly online as opposed to researching offline. My dream after 21 years is finally coming true! ... See MoreSee Less
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