Mount of Temptation

Cashing in on the Mount of Temptation is another story.

It is built on the slopes of the Mount of Temptation, that is rising 350 meters above sea level.

The Mount of Temptation is said to be the hill in the Judean Desert where Jesus was tempted by Satan.

A few miles northwest of Jericho rises the Mount of Temptation, the traditional scene of the temptation of Christ.

The Mount of Temptation is mentioned in a poem of the Temptation event by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

While the Australians captured Jericho, the regiment established a camp in the valley under the Mount of Temptation, north of Jericho.

A cable car takes Christian pilgrims up the hill to the Mount of Temptation, topped by a Greek Orthodox monastery with panoramic views of the region.

Yet, like Life’s Too Short, this prompts a consideration of the temptations of fame, as the endearingly human vicar Adam has his Mount of Temptation moment.

And it sits at the edge of a sleepy Muslim town of 20,000 whose fundamentalist residents, though they live in the shadow of the biblical Mount of Temptation, disapprove of gambling.

Further north at Jebel Kuruntul (also known as Jebel Quruntul, the Mount of Temptation and Mount Quarantania) the mountains end abruptly in a 1,000-foot (300 m) cliff.

The episode ends with Bowen spending the night alone at the Mount of Temptation just above Jericho, where Jesus is traditionally believed to have spent 40 days and nights being tempted by the devil.

Rows of restaurants and trinket stalls built in the optimism of a few years of peace are shut down, as is a new cable car that ran from the city up to the Mount of Temptation.

The cable way, built by an Austrian company, climbs 547 feet to a cliff-side monastery on the Mount of Temptation, where according to Christian tradition, Jesus fasted for 40 days and was tempted by the devil.

However, as the weather worsens during early 1949 they abandon their cave in Qumran and wander further to Jericho where they settle into refugee camp Aqabat Jaber at the foot of the supposed Mount of Temptation.

The 12th-century Monastery of the Qurantul on the Mount of Temptation - reachable by a 20th-century cable car - is built on a majestic site where Jesus is believed to have fasted for 40 days while tempted by the devil.

But there are still Israelis who, like the monk at the Mount of Temptation, are uncomfortable with the notion of riding up to Masada in a cable car instead of climbing the ancient Snake Path that winds up the side of the mountain.

As a child with little else to do, Manougian would climb to the top of Mount Quarantania - said to be the Biblical "Mount of Temptation" - and look out over the vastness of the land around him and upwards to the stars wondering why he couldn't fly to the moon.

Palestinians are celebrating the 10,000th birthday of the ancient city of Jericho in the West Bank, one of the world's oldest cities and the biblically significant site of the Mount of Temptation where Jesus is believed to have spent 40 days and nights fasting and meditating during the temptation of the devil.