Roofs - Old City, Jerusalem

We photographed these rooftops from the Tower of David in Jerusalem's Old City. 

Roofs - Muslim Quarter, Old City, Jerusalem

As far as I could tell, Jewish Israelis do not use their rooftops. But in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, people use their roofs similarly to how the Jordanians do. 

Family Atop Roof - Husn, Jordan

This is a view of Husn, Jordan, where we lived.
Notice the roof of the home in the foreground. 

This family was making good use of their rooftop.
The man in red and black was praying on a rug.
The children were playing and had two bicycles on the roof.

Roofs - Husn, Jordan

This was a home in Husn. Notice the wooden ladder ascending up to the roof.

This guy was hanging out on top of his roof.

This was the rooftop of our apartment building in Husn, Jordan. 
The horizontal wire in the photograph is where I hung our clothes to dry. 

This is a view of Husn, Jordan from our rooftop.

This is our neighbor's rooftop.

Here is another view of Husn, Jordan from our rooftop.

Here is my wonderful husband standing near the rooftop's wall at dusk.

Roofs - Marka, Jordan

This was the rooftop of our apartment building in Marka, Jordan. Notice the big satellite dishes. You would be hard pressed to find a rooftop in Jordan without several satellite dishes on it.  

Someone had put some old couches on our shared rooftop in Marka. We never sat on them. I imagine that if we had, a huge cloud of dust would have billowed out of them. 

This was one of the views from our rooftop. Notice the clothes hanging out to dry on our neighbor's apartment building.

This is another view from the rooftop of our apartment building in Marka. Because buildings are built on hillsides, they are terraced, making it easy for a person above to look down onto someone else's rooftop. This would have been the case with David gazing upon Bathsheba. His roof was no doubt a higher elevation than Bathsheba's.

Roofs - Marj al Hamam, Jordan

This is a view of a few houses in Marj al Hamam, Jordan. Notice the wooden ladders going up to upper levels of the roofs. Roofs in Bible days would have had similar ladders. Also notice the protective walls around the edges of the roofs. The Bible calls these "battlements." 

These are water tanks in Marj al Hamam, Jordan. This is very typical of how most people's water, which is pumped in once a week, is stored. A few people have heavy-duty round plastic water storage tanks. Those are better than the metal ones because they are much more airtight, keeping dust, leaves, and other debris from contaminating the water.