Monte Luker

Monte Luker Monte Luker is the Academic Dean of the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies.

We help professors, pastors, and priests, as well as universities, seminaries, and colleges, to plan and execute in-depth study tours in the Holy Land and in Europe.

02/10/2020

For our Jewish siblings we have just come through Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and now enter the eight-day celebration of Sukkot (Booths/Tabernacles). It is difficult in this country for community celebrations and even more difficult in Israel. Let us join in prayer with them, Palestinians, and all suffering health and employment challenges in this difficult time. We are hoping travel to the Holy Land will resume this summer.🙏

25/07/2020

I hope all of you are doing well during this challenging time. Please remember to pray for our friends and colleagues in the Holy Land. I look forward to seeing them when I return next spring-summer with five groups.

Dear friends,In these difficult days, let us remember and contemplate the serenity of the Sea of Galilee and all that ha...
20/04/2020

Dear friends,
In these difficult days, let us remember and contemplate the serenity of the Sea of Galilee and all that happened there.
Monte

If you haven't visited Israel lately, you may not have seen the recently excavated Magdala, hometown of Mary Magdalene. ...
05/03/2020

If you haven't visited Israel lately, you may not have seen the recently excavated Magdala, hometown of Mary Magdalene. It brings now to 7 the number of first-century synagogues we have discovered. (My professor in graduate school said, "There were no synagogues at the time of Jesus; Luke just made all that up!") Jesus would have traveled from Nazareth to Magdala in order to get to Capernaum where he regularly stayed at Peter's house (see Mark 2). This picture shows the "bimah" or table from which he likely read the Torah on Shabbat upon occasion.

I am arranging study tours for 2021 and 2022 now. Please contact me!

Armenian Christmas Eve in Jerusalem. They will be gathering here at Bethany Beyond the Jordan tomorrow to celebrate Jesu...
18/01/2020

Armenian Christmas Eve in Jerusalem. They will be gathering here at Bethany Beyond the Jordan tomorrow to celebrate Jesus's birth, the Epiphany, and His baptism!

Merry Orthodox Christmas from Bethlehem and Jerusalem! The Greek and Coptic Patriarchs arrive at the Church of the Nativ...
07/01/2020

Merry Orthodox Christmas from Bethlehem and Jerusalem! The Greek and Coptic Patriarchs arrive at the Church of the Nativity on Christmas Eve yesterday. Earlier, student pilgrims from Palmer Seminary in Philadelphia celebrate baptism. And spend meditation time at the Sea of Galilee (Primacy of Peter).

Academic study tour cruises mix fun and learning! In the fall our ship docked at Haifa, Israel, and later arrived at Val...
28/12/2019

Academic study tour cruises mix fun and learning! In the fall our ship docked at Haifa, Israel, and later arrived at Valletta, Malta! Land tours to all these places are possible through the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies.

Many Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies study tours this fall! July 31 I retired from the seminary. This enables me t...
05/12/2019

Many Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies study tours this fall! July 31 I retired from the seminary. This enables me to be full-time dean of JCBS. Think about attending or arranging yourself a study tour next year.

Recently students on the Lands of the Bible Cruise toured Crete!

Isn't it time you arranged a study tour to Jordan? Max Miller in his book calls it an essential part of the Holy Land! M...
22/07/2019

Isn't it time you arranged a study tour to Jordan? Max Miller in his book calls it an essential part of the Holy Land! Meantime, go to my website and check out the opportunity for January 11. Several of you have responded already. Sign up now!

An interesting site, not on most tours, is Machaerus, where Herod Antipas had John the Baptist beheaded (Matthew 14:1-12...
20/06/2019

An interesting site, not on most tours, is Machaerus, where Herod Antipas had John the Baptist beheaded (Matthew 14:1-12). In modern-day Jordan overlooking the Dead Sea, it is accessible only by the ancient, winding King's Highway. We peered at it from the road on our way down to Petra. The palace excavations can be seen atop the tel.

It is always an exciting event when students peer from Mount Nebo into the Promised Land, with Jericho and the Dead Sea ...
19/06/2019

It is always an exciting event when students peer from Mount Nebo into the Promised Land, with Jericho and the Dead Sea before them. The artwork recalls "Even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up." The church has been recently restored in honor of Pope St. John Paul the Great's visit here in 2000.

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