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  • Title: Iron Age Jerusalem: Temple-Palace, Capital City.
  • Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
  • Release Date : January 01, 2007
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 205 KB

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INTRODUCTION The debate over the status of Jerusalem of the United Monarchy has been of major interest to many scholars. (1) Many of these studies focus on the presence or absence of archaeological finds. According to some, during the tenth-ninth centuries B.C.E., the city was only a small settlement. (2) Others read the finds, limited as they are, as indicative of the presence of a large capital. (3) A third opinion explains the lack of finds in Jerusalem through anthropological or ethno-archaeological justification, claiming that a site that is designated as a capital may be unsettled, (4) while a fourth opinion claims that there was only a rural settlement in Jerusalem during that period. (5) There is a general assumption that the portrayal of Jerusalem in the Biblical record is an attempt by a late editor to assign early importance to the capital city that arose only later. (6)


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