Rodney Aist is the course director at St. George's College, Jerusalem. A scholar of Jerusalem pilgrimage past and present, he is the author of The Christian Topography of Early Islamic Jerusalem (2009), Jerusalem Bound (2020), and Pilgrim Spirituality (2022).
""Aist's Walking the Jerusalem Circuit is more than a guidebook to the most important Christian sites in the Holy City of Jerusalem. In addition to good, practical and updated information, it provides the reader with so much historical and spiritual background, often drawn from the experiences of the most famous pilgrims of our past."" --Eugenio Alliata, emeritus professor of biblical archaeology, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem ""Walking the Jerusalem Circuit is well worth reading and study, especially if one is about to make a spiritual pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Jerusalem. His research reflects the early Christian emphasis on following a spiritual path from the resurrection of Jesus to his ascension rather than what has been the 'traditional' way of the cross with the fourteen stations developed centuries later. A refreshing understanding of the early church's experience of moving from the resurrection (Church of the Holy Sepulcher) to the cenacle (scene of the mystical supper and Pentecost) to the Mount of Olives and to the ascension (empowerment to 'go forth' and proclaim)."" --John Paul, SJ, rector, Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem