The Damascus Road [with Straight Street and Via Maris]

“…so they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.”

The view from the Israel portion of the Damascus Road as it appears today

If the Emmaus Road is a metaphor for a gradual experience of revelation, the Damascus Road is revelation at its most visceral and primal.

Its importance comes into focus in the 9th chapter of The Acts of the Apostles:

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the dis…