Prelude

At the bottom of a quiet valley in Israel, there is no monument—just a farm, a dry creek bed, and a gas station beside the highway. At first glance, it looks like nothing at all. But if you stand there long enough and begin to peel away the modern world in your imagination, the ground starts to tell a different story.

In this opening episode, author and former soldier Cliff Graham brings listeners to an unassuming place that once stood at the edge of invasion: a narrow pass ancient soldiers knew as the “Boun...