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Looking for Judas
Jay and I peered together at our foldout map. On it the bold-faced, introduction-unnecessary place names (Herod’s Gate, Solomon’s Stables, Dome of the Rock, Western Wall) were packed together so plentifully it invited despair of ever seeing them all. Down near the bottom of our map, however—stark and alone but for an orbiting, italicized, and differently typeset Hinnom Valley—was our destination: Hakeldama.
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Issue: Summer 2009 / Volume 85/3
Published: June 30, 2009
Tom Bissell is the author of a collection of short stories God Lives in St. Petersburg (Pantheon, 2005), winner of the Rome Prize, and two travel narratives: Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia (Pantheon, 2003), cited by Condé Nast Traveler as one of...