1. Introduction
 

• How to Use this Book

• How This All Came to Be

• Why do we call this The Octagon Project?

• What is The Merged Gospels?

• How do we know that a holy site is authentic?

• Introduction to Israel and Jerusalem

 
2. The Bethlehem Area
 

• The Nativity Church Nave

• The Nativity Grotto

• The Church of Saint Catherine

• Jerome’s Grotto

• The Infant Bath of Jesus

• The Chapel of the Holy Innocents

• The Milk Grotto

• The Orthodox Shepherds’ Field

• The Shepherds’ Field - Franciscan

• The Shepherds’ Field - YMCA

• The Kathisma

• The Monastery of Theodosius

3. The Nazareth Area
 

• Introduction to Nazareth

• The Church of Saint Gabriel

• Mary’s Well

• The Church of the Annunciation

• The Nazareth Ruins

• The Church of Saint Joseph

• The International Mary of Nazareth Center

• The Sisters of Nazareth Convent

• The Synagogue Church

• The Maronite Cliff

• The Holy Caves of Nazareth

• The Franciscan Cana Wedding Chapel

• The Greek Orthodox Church of Cana

• The Church of the Apostle Nathanael (built over his home)

• Mount Precipice

4. The Galilean North Shore
 

• Introduction to Galileee

• The Church of the Multiplication

• The Church of Peter’s Primacy

• The Mount of Beatitudes - the Actual Site

• The Church of the Beatitudes

• The Church of the 12 Apostles

• Introduction to Capernaum

• The Capernaum Synagogue

• The Home of Simon Peter

• The Modern Church at Capernaum

• The Capernaum Lakeside

• Chorazin

• The Sea of Galilee

• The Leper’s Bath

5. The Galilean West Shore
 

• Ancient Tiberias

• The Gennesaret Valley/Ancient Boat

• Magdala

6. Decapolis and the Golan Heights
 

• Caesarea Philippi

• Bethsaida

• Kursi (the Miracle of the Swine)

• Tel Hadar (The Feeding of the 4000)

7. Samaria
 

• The Cave of the Ten Lepers

• The Church of John the Baptist at Sebastia

• The Tomb of John the Baptist

• Jacob’s Well

• Tel Balata (New Testament Sychar)

• Mount Gerazim (where Samaritans worship)

• Tel Salim (where John baptized)

8. The Jezreel Valley
 

• The Catholic Church of the Transfiguration

• The Greek Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration

• Nain (where Jesus Raised a Widow’s Son)

9. The Jordan Valley
 

• Wadi Kharrar Baptism Site (Country of Jordan)

• Elijah’s Hill/John the Baptist’s Cave

• Madaba (the World’s Oldest Holy Land Map)

• The Qasr al-Yehud Baptism Site

• The Monastery of Temptation

• The Church of Saint Elisha (the Tree of Zacchaeus)

• The Tomb of Zacchaeus

• Herodian Jericho

• Wadi Qelt (Ein Fawar)

• The Monastery of Saint George

• Qumran

•  The Dead Sea 

10. The Mount of Olives
 

• The Tomb of Lazarus

• Bethphage

• The Pater Poster Convent

• The Chapel of the Ascension

• The Church of Lazarus

• The Orthodox Church of Mary, Martha and Lazarus

• The Tomb of the Prophets

• Dominus Flevit

• Palm Sunday Road

• The Church of Mary Magdalene

• The Tomb of the Virgin Mary

• The Gethsemane Grotto

• The Gethsemane Garden

• The Basilica of the Agony

11. The City of David and Valleys
 

• The Kidron Valley (The Valley of Jehoshaphat)

• The Synagogue of Theodotus

• The Tower of Siloam

• The Pool of Siloam

• Akeldama (the Potter’s Field)

12. The Temple Mount and Jewish Quarter
 

• The Temple Mount

• The Western Wall

• The Hasmonean Palace (Where Jesus was tried by Herod Antipas)

• The Ophel Archeological Park

13. The Christian and Armenian Quarters
 

• The Church of John the Baptist (Old City)

• The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer

• The Russian Orthodox Church of Alexander Nevsky

• The Church of Saint James

• The Church of Saint Mark

14. The Via Dolorosa and Muslim Quarter
 

• The Orthodox Birthplace of Mary

• The Church of Saint Anne

• The Pool of Bethesda

• The First Station of the Cross

• The Second Station of the Cross

• The Courtyard of the Flagellation

• The Lithostrotos (Gabbatha)

• The Prison of Christ and Barabbas

• The Third Station of the Cross

• The Fourth Station of the Cross

• The Fifth Station of the Cross

• The Sixth Station of the Cross

•  The Seventh Station of the Cross 

• The Eighth Station of the Cross

• The Ninth Station of the Cross

15. Mount Zion
 

• The Upper Room

• The Domitian Abbey

• The Church of Saint Savior

• The Church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu

• The Byzantine Jerusalem Model

16. Jerusalem North and West
 

• The Third Wall

• The Monastery of the Cross

• The Garden Tomb

17. The Judean Hill Country
 

• The Church of John the Baptist (his birthplace in Ein Karem)

• Mary’s Spring (where Mary fetched water)

• The Church of the Visitation (the site of the Magnificat)

• Emmaus/Nicopolis

• The Cave of John the Baptist (the site of a John the Baptist cult)

18. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher
 

• The Original Narthex of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

• The Courtyard - the Parvis

• The Holy Entrance

• The Tenth Station of the Cross - The Chapel of the Franks

• The Chapel of the Nailing

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•  The Chapel of Calvary 

• The Chapel of Adam

• The Treasure Room

• The Holy Women Memorial

• The Second Golgotha Chapel

• The Rotunda

• The Edicule

• The Chapel of the Angel

• The Tomb of Jesus

• The Coptic Chapel

• The Syrian Chapel

• The Catholicon

• The Chapel of Mary Magdalene

• The Chapel of the Apparition

• The Arches of the Virgin

• The Prison

• The Ambulatory

• The Chapel of Saint Helena (aka. The Chapel of Gregory the Illuminator)

• The Chapel of the Discovery of the Cross

• The Chapel of Saint Vartan

• Dier Es Sultan (Ethiopian Monastery)

19. Addenda
 

• Holy Land Timeline (the entire history)

• The Church of the Holy Sepulcher vs. The Garden Tomb

• What is the West Bank?

• What do we mean by “Byzantine”?

• What do we mean by “Crusader”?

• What are the icons?

• What is the Status Quo?

• The History of Deir-es-Sultan (the Ethiopian monastery)

•  Where was John the Baptist killed? 

• Where was Bethany Beyond the Jordan?

• Where did Jesus feed the 5000?

• Where did the Transfiguration take place?

• Where is the Real Via Dolorosa?

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