by hadassah | Oct 27, 2016 | The Deuteronomistic History
King Solomon’s Wall Still Supports the Temple Mount, Ernest-Marie Laperrousaz, Biblical Archaeology Review (13:3), May/Jun 1987. “No actual remains of Solomonic Jerusalem have survived,” Dr. Kathleen Kenyon wrote shortly before her death in 1978.1 Most scholars...
by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | The Deuteronomistic History
Excavating Ekron, Seymour Gitin, Biblical Archaeology Review (31:6), Nov/Dec 2005. Major Philistine City Survived by Absorbing Other Cultures The Philistines were the chief adversary of Biblical Israel in the 12th and 11th centuries B.C.E. They were also the...
by hadassah | Jan 22, 2009 | The Deuteronomistic History
The Deuteronomistic History Overview Life in the Land (Joshua and Judges), Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. Prophets and Kings (1 and 2 Samuel), Christine Hayes, Open Yale Courses (Transcription), 2006. Response to Catastrophe (1 and 2...
by hadassah | Jun 30, 2008 | The Deuteronomistic History
Visitors to Jerusalem understandably are often confused by the jumbled and disconnected layers of the past that exist side by side with the teeming modern city. Jerusalem at the time of the First Temple—the Jerusalem of the Bible, the Jerusalem of Solomon, the...
by hadassah | Jun 25, 2008 | The Deuteronomistic History
Where They Came From, How They Settled Down and the Place They Worshiped In The accumulated evidence from recent excavations at Miqne and other sites and current research on the material culture of the Philistines and other Sea Peoples make the time ripe for a...
by hadassah | Jun 16, 2008 | Judges, The Deuteronomistic History
The Philistines Enter Canaan, Bryant G. Wood, Biblical Archaeology Review (17:6), Nov/Dec 1991 Were they Egyptian lackeys or invading conquerors? Archaeology has brought the Philistines to life more vividly than perhaps any other Biblical people save the...
