Gideon Marx is a57 year old Karate teacher with an interest in fighting, weapons and military matters both ancient and new. For the past couple of years he has been writing a tourist guide to the battlefields of Israel. This has led to an interest in the battles of the Bible and the need to make sense of them beyond the 'it was a miracle' level. And that led to the need for a fresh hermeneutics of Bible festivals.
