Biblical archaeology focus of lecture and exhibit [ Sennacherib, Tell Halif ]

Webster Progress Times ^ | September 17, 2008 | from Press Reports

[SunkenCiv]

Dr. James W. Hardin and Dylan Karges of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University will present an upcoming lecture and host a reception for an exhibit of finds from excavations in southern Israel... [Hardin's] current research has focused mostly on materials from excavations at Tell Halif, a small, fortified village in the border country with Phillistia and on the northern fringe of the Negev Desert. This area was the buffer zone between the Coastal Plain and the Hill Country, which guarded the routes to Jerusalem. Excavations at Tell Halif have uncovered evidence of a major destruction that took place in 701 B.C. This was a time of great hope and ambition for the land of Judah under King Hezekiah... [In] a war campaign of death, devastation and destruction by the Assyrian leader Sennacherib... claims to have destroyed every walled city, town and village except Jerusalem, where he gloated to have trapped Hezekiah "like a bird in a cage" and demanded healthy tribute for leaving the capital city intact... In 701 B.C., Sennacherib and his army sacked the village and burned it to the ground. The people of Tell Halif were either killed or fled, and left their belongings behind. Modern excavations there have found these belongings on the floors of their homes where they were abandoned some 2,700 years ago. The village was later reoccupied and built again on a leveled surface over the destruction, thus sealing that day of destruction for posterity.

[SunkenCiv]

6 p.m. Oct. 2 at the BLY Fine Arts Center in downtown Eupora, Mississippi.

[SunkenCiv]

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[the_Watchman]

Focus on the Family sponsored a series of videos on Biblical archeology: That the World May Know with teacher Ray Vander Laan. One of the videos featured an excavation of a temple destroyed during Hezekiah’s reign. The temple was in a town outside of Jerusalem.

This replica temple had been pretty much intact with the implements buried within. They believe that the local Jewish community tore down this replica at the behest of Hezekiah who was trying to suppress religious splinter groups. Hezekiah wanted all the Jews to come to Jerusalem for worship.

[Fred Nerks]

The shrine room at Judahite Tell Halif.

The location of the ceramics at one end (the north end; entrance is at the southeastern end) of the shrine room presents a tight grouping of ceramic pottery and ritual objects. The ceramic artifacts, carefully plotted during excavation, are represented in original locations in the shrine room in the drawing on the left. Note that the collection includes no lamp, and that both vessels and cultic objects were found together at one end of the room.

[SunkenCiv]

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