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Neot Kedumim
Israel’s Biblical Landscape
Experience biblical times through a 625-acre re-creation of the Bible with
everything from majestic cedars of Lebanon to the humble hyssop bush
“But the land that you are going over of the Bible and provided a rich vocabulary for Literally with the Bible in one hand and a spade
to possess is a land of hills and valleys, expressing them. in the other, Neot Kedumim has constructed a
which drinks water by the rain from network of natural and agricultural landscapes
heaven” Deuteronomy 11:11 The Bible does not convey its ideas in abstract bearing names that indicate their textual
N Reserve in Israel, halfway between and many more.
sources: the Forest of Milk and Honey, the
terms, but through a clear and vivid record
Dale of the Song of Songs, Isaiah’s Vineyard,
eot Kedumim – the Biblical Landscape of long human interaction with the Land of
Israel. Neot Kedumim draws on a variety of
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, is a unique disciplines – such as Bible scholarship, botany,
Thousands of tons of soil were trucked in and
zoology, geography, history, and archaeology –
endeavor to re-create the physical
setting of the Bible in all its depth and to bring the Bible and its commentaries to life.
spread on the eroded hillsides, reservoirs were
detail. Far more than a garden showing
terraces restored. Hundreds of thousands
various biblical plants, Neot Kedumim’s vast “A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, dug to catch runof rainwater, and ancient
area embodies the panorama and power of the and ig trees, and pomegranates; a land of trees and shrubs representing hundreds
landscapes that both helped shape the values of oil olive, and honey” Deuteronomy 8:8 of varieties of biblical and Talmudic plants,
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Israel’s Biblical Landscape
Experience biblical times through a 625-acre re-creation of the Bible with
everything from majestic cedars of Lebanon to the humble hyssop bush
“But the land that you are going over of the Bible and provided a rich vocabulary for Literally with the Bible in one hand and a spade
to possess is a land of hills and valleys, expressing them. in the other, Neot Kedumim has constructed a
which drinks water by the rain from network of natural and agricultural landscapes
heaven” Deuteronomy 11:11 The Bible does not convey its ideas in abstract bearing names that indicate their textual
N Reserve in Israel, halfway between and many more.
sources: the Forest of Milk and Honey, the
terms, but through a clear and vivid record
Dale of the Song of Songs, Isaiah’s Vineyard,
eot Kedumim – the Biblical Landscape of long human interaction with the Land of
Israel. Neot Kedumim draws on a variety of
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, is a unique disciplines – such as Bible scholarship, botany,
Thousands of tons of soil were trucked in and
zoology, geography, history, and archaeology –
endeavor to re-create the physical
setting of the Bible in all its depth and to bring the Bible and its commentaries to life.
spread on the eroded hillsides, reservoirs were
detail. Far more than a garden showing
terraces restored. Hundreds of thousands
various biblical plants, Neot Kedumim’s vast “A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, dug to catch runof rainwater, and ancient
area embodies the panorama and power of the and ig trees, and pomegranates; a land of trees and shrubs representing hundreds
landscapes that both helped shape the values of oil olive, and honey” Deuteronomy 8:8 of varieties of biblical and Talmudic plants,
36
