Mount Zion
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13"x19" signed print: archival pigmented inks on matte watercolor paper Scholars argue that if the Eastern Hill captured by David was the Metsudat Tsion, "the Stronghold of Zion" (2 Sam. 5:7), then what we call Mount Zion today is perhaps misnamed. Mount Zion, as it is known today, is bordered on the south and west by the Hinnom Valley (in the foreground) and on the east by the Tyropoeon Valley. The area was first included in the city walls in the second century b.c.e. Between 444-460, the empress Eudocia rebuilt the walls destroyed by Titus in 70 c.e. They survived until el-Aziz brought them down. Saladin included the Tomb of David within his new walls. At the far left are the towers of the Dormition Church. At the far right is the spire of the Russian Church of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives. This view is from the slopes of Abu Tor, the Hill of Evil Counsel.