Abstract:
Recent sociological and anthropological studies have provided models for examining
pilgrimage both in its ancient and contemporary manifestations. Such models can facilitate an
examination of the phenomenon of study tours to biblical lands and the multivalence of the
discourses associated with such tours. The first part of the article engaged critically with the
literature in order to open up some frameworks for examining the study tour to biblical lands.
Feminist critical biblical scholarship with its potential for a feminist hermeneutic of creative
imagination contributes to the multivalence around the study tour. Therefore, the second
part of the article engaged this scholarship in relation to an imagined tour with women of the
biblical lands. The article highlighted significant issues for consideration for those planning
a study tour of biblical lands, especially in terms of the consideration that ought to be paid to
gender.
