Five Notes on Jerusalem in the First and Second Temple Periods, Tel Aviv 39 (2012), 93-103. (original) (raw)
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This volume offers a cross-disciplinary assessment of First Temple Jerusalem, summarizing and critiquing earlier theories about its status as a religious and political center and presenting previously unpublished archaeological data. Contributors include Yairah Amit, Jane M. Cahill, Israel Finkelstein, Richard Elliott Friedman, Hillel Geva, James K. Hoffmeier, Ann E. Killebrew, Gary N. Knoppers, Gunnar Lehmann, Ronny Reich, J. J. M. Roberts, William M. Schniedewind, Eli Shukron, Neil Asher Silberman, Margreet Steiner, Lynn Tatum, David Ussishkin, Andrew G. Vaughn, and K. Lawson Younger Jr.
The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah in Honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman, ed. S. Fine. Brill Reference Library of Judaism 19. Leiden: Brill, 2011
When Jerusalem first appears in biblical history, it is a location unaffiliated with any individual Israelite tribe. In the Bible, Jerusalem is described as a Jebusite settlement, conquered and chosen by David to be the capital of his newly united kingdom. In the three thousand years that separate the modern city from David’s settlement on the southeastern spur of Mount Moriah, Jerusalem is a contested city, considered sacred by the world’s three monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Its spiritual significance encompasses past, present and future. In this paper, I reassess the evidence and present the major highlights of recent archaeological discoveries near the Temple Mount during the First and Second Temple periods.
Baruch, E., and Faust, A. (eds.), New Studies on Jerusalem: Volume 22 (English Abstracts)
The file includes the English abstracts of the articles published in this volume (in Hebrew): David Ussishkin: Was Jerusalem a Fortified Stronghold in the Middle Bronze Age? An Alternative View Amir Feldstein: The Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 'El-Amarna' Period Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor: Khirbet el Rai: An Iron Age Site in the Judean Shephelah Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman: A Lost Manuscript, Tomb 1 at Ain Shems and the Earliest Identification of Iron Age IIA in the Shephelah Ido Koch: Stamp-Amulets from Iron IIA Shephelah: Preliminary Conclusions regarding Production and Distribution, Pictorial Assemblage, and Function Avraham Faust: Tel ‘Eton and the Colonization of the Shephelah during the Iron Age IIA Gabriel Barkay and Robert Deutsch: Another Fiscal Bulla from the City of David Aaron Greener, Gabriel Barkay and Zachi Dvira (Zweig): Iron Age II Figurine Fragments from the Temple Mount Soil Efrat Bocher and Liora Freud: Persian Period Settlement in the Rural Jerusalem Hinterland Moran Hagbi: The Strategic importance of Judea and Jerusalem at the 2nd Century BCE - A view from the Fortified Sites David Gurevich: The Dam Dated to the Hasmonean Period at The Sultan's Pool, Jerusalem Eyal Regev: How Did the Hasmoneans Build Jewish Collective Identity Haim Cohen: Distinctive Plaster of Jewish Mikvaoth, Olive and Wine Presses during the Second Temple and the Talmud Period Zeev Safrai: Dk' lyh Shimon Gibson and Rafael Lewis: On Determining the Date of Agricultural Terracing Around Jerusalem Anat Avital: The Representation of Crops and Agricultural Tools in Late Roman and Byzantine Mosaics of Judea and Jerusalem Bat-Sheva Garsiel: The Description of Jerusalem in Travelers' Books Shlomo Lotan: The Description of the Fate of Jerusalem and the Crusader Kingdom in the Chronicles of the Roman Emperor Frederick II Eyal Davidson: Between the Bridge and the Strawberry Tree – The Jewish Cemetery in Jerusalem in the 16th Century Abraham David: The Travelogue of R. Moses Basola in the Beginning of Ottoman Rule as a Source for the History of Jerusalem and its Jewish Community
Defending the Middle Ground: The Walls of Jerusalem in Iron Age I and IIA
Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins, 2022
This paper presents a critical synopsis of excavations by K. M. KENYON and E. MAZAR (and to a lesser extent Y. SHILOH and D. BEN-AMI and Y. TCHEKHANOVETS) on the Ophel and on the summit and upper east slope of the City of David, with a view to reassessing the evolution of the fortifications of Jerusalem from the 11 th to 9 th cent. B.C.E. By extension, the paper also addresses the nature and extent of Jerusalem across those centuries and the contribution of Jerusalem to the problem of early Israelite state formation. Few serious attempts have been made to integrate the results of MAZAR's excavations on the summit with the earlier, contiguous, work by KENYON. As for MAZAR's Ophel excavations, their recent final publication adds important new data that warrant a critical evaluation of MAZAR's characterization and dating of the remains. The paper concludes with a rebuttal of the view that Jerusalem was a small, unfortified settlement before the 8 th cent. B.C.E.
Literary and Archaeological Evidence for the Location of Jerusalem's Jewish Temple(s)
Near East Atchaeological Society Bulletin, 2021
Recently, it has become popular in certain circles to assert that the Jewish Temple(s) did not originally stand atop the historical Temple Mount, known today as Haram esh Sharif, but rather stood on the lower ground to the south in the City of David, covering the Gihon Spring and extending west between the Stepped Stone Structure and the Ophel (Proposal 1 – Martin’s hypothesis) or north of the Stepped Stone Structure and south of the Ophel (Proposal 2 – Cornuke’s hypothesis). Proponents for Proposal 2 insist that the Temple precincts housed a spring, but their schematics show a smaller Temple to the west of the Gihon spring. Advocates for this revisionist view appeal to literature from the Late Classical period, archaeological remains, and biblical passages to support their case. In the discussion that follows we review all the pertinent evidence. This includes (1) Late Classical literature, (2) historical and archaeological evidence, and (3) biblical data.
Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period, 2003
This chapter introduces readers to the main themes and approaches of essays published in this co-edited book: Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period. This volume demonstrates how the integration of archaeology and biblical studies can take place with reference to the central site of Jerusalem. It also illustrates how biblical interpretation, historical investigations, and archaeological research can successfully dialogue even in the absence of consensus about the “facts.”