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Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the Popes of Rome and Christian Church.

Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the popes and Christianity.

I am your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey.

This episode will rely primarily on the Biblical Archaeology Review magazine called House of the Rising Sun,

Azica's Canaanite Temple by Lipschitz, Rips, Oming, and Kynman.

I've included some other material from other sources, but the biblical archaeology review article in their magazine is all over this temple and covering this temple. What was the

time and the place of Azica's temple? The temple is located in Sheppla in the Judean foothills on top of the Ilah Valley.

The place is essentially central Judea on the border between the hill country leading up to Jerusalem

and the coastal plain leading down to the Mediterranean Sea. So to put that into perspective, it's about

36 kilometers from Ashdod on the Mediterranean Sea, walking downhill from 200 meters to sea level,

doable, very doable, and a one-day journey in about the same distance to Ashgolan. Now it was a 43-kilometer walk

to Jerusalem walking uphill about 500 meters, and this would have been up and down through the

hill country. So I would say it was at the very

least a two-day journey and not an easy trip to Jerusalem. And location matters. For a time from

the mid-16th century BC to the 12th century, the southern Levant and Canaan, including this area around the temple,

were ruled by Egypt.

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