Posted on 08/28/2007 11:45:16 AM PDT by blam
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At Galilee site, solving a mystery from the time of Solomon
By Jack Khoury
A wooden sign stands at the entrance to the dirt road leading to the Segev Forest in the Western Galilee, inscribed with the symbol of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). Beneath it in fading green letters is the name "Rosh Zayit Ruin." Without perusing the entrance to the dirt road carefully, you might not see the weed-covered sign, and not realize that this is the entrance to a very special archaeological site.
Only an all-terrain vehicle can reach the place because the road is so bad. Before you reach the site, consisting of ruins from the 10th century BCE, you will notice how poorly the area is kept up. The communities in the Misgav region, where the ruin is located, are to begin restoration and development work during the holidays in the hope of upgrading their foundering tourism profile.
The site itself is on a hill with a spectacular view. To the west, you can see the entire Acre Valley and Haifa Bay, and to the north and east are the Western and Upper Galilee mountains. Many archaeologists have found in the site the solution to a historical mystery going back to the time of King Solomon.
"The excavations Dr. Zvi Gal carried out at the beginning of the 1990s solved a very complex puzzle about King Solomon and Hiram, king of Phoenicia," says Mordechai Aviam, director of the Galilee Archaeological Institute.
"A site of a Phoenician nature was built here, a kind of administrative and military center constructed on top of private dwellings from the 11th century. The Phoenician nature of the site bears out the story of King Solomon giving King Hiram portions of the country in exchange
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
GGG Ping.
If I remember correctly, Hiram didn’t like the towns, so he burned them.........
Hiram helped him build Solomons temple.
Yes, and as a “gift” Solomon gave Hiram a few towns in the northern part of Israel. But Hiram toured the towns and didn’t like them..........
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1 Kings 9:
10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings the temple of the LORD and the royal palace
11 King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and pine and gold he wanted.
12 But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
13 What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother? he asked. And he called them the Land of Cabul, a name they have to this day.
from a dead link:The Burning Of HazorThe Egyptians could be responsible. Pharaoh Seti I, in an inscription describing his military campaign against Canaan ca. 1300 B.C., claimed to have destroyed Hazor. Another possibility is that Ramses II could have conquered the city, either on his way northward to Syria before the Battle of Kadesh in 1275 B.C. or on his return to Egypt afterward. Yet Ben-Tor believes that the intentional smashing of statues at Hazor, particularly those of the Egyptian kings, makes these possibilities unlikely. He also dismisses the likelihood of destruction at the hands of a rival Canaanite city-state because of the apparent absence of nearby cities powerful enough to attack Hazor. As for the Sea Peoples, Ben-Tor notes that not a single sherd of their distinctive decorated pottery has been found in the city, which is much further inland than the sites they are known to have conquered. That leaves the Israelites. The discovery of an archive at Hazor might pinpoint the date of the city's destruction, or provide information about the historical situation in Canaan in the years immediately preceding the Israelite settlement.
by Abraham Rabinovich and Neil Asher SilbermanHazorI would suggest, therefore, that the scheme presented here offers a much more satisfactory understanding of the biblical material referring to Hazor than does the current view which places the Conquest in the 13th century and links the end of the LBA city with Jos 11. Such a view is unable to account satisfactorily for the reappearance of the city in Jdg 4-5. The city attacked and destroyed by Joshua's forces was in fact the final phase of the MBA city. Hazor was subsequently rebuilt (perhaps after a period of abandonment), and continued to flourish, though with less importance than it possessed in the MBA, until the 13th century, when it finally succumbed to the Israelite pressure which followed the defeat of Sisera's troops.
by John J. Bimson
Actually, it's mighty optimistic for Harrison to state that "All scholars agree that Sheshonq/Shishak cut a devastating swath through Israel in about 925 B.C.E." I do wonder what axe Finkelstein is grinding, since he regards the early monarchy as both more recent and also illiterate.Palace of HazorHowever, when Ben-Tor began his excavations in 1990 he came upon a palace near Yadin's which he dated, by means of its ceramics, to a few hundred years later - that is, to the last half of the second millennium or Late Bronze (LB) period... "We had taken it for granted that there were two palaces," he says. "I now think Yadin erred and that the palace whose corner he excavated may perhaps be part of the same Late Bronze palace we've been excavating, not an earlier palace from the Middle Bronze period. It will take another two weeks of digging next season to prove it, one way or the other."
Bridges for PeaceWho Destroyed Megiddo?Most scholars accept David as a historical figure who was an active military ruler in the period portrayed in the Hebrew Bible (the early tenth century B.C.E.). However, there is considerably less agreement on how to interpret the archaeological evidence for this period. That's where Megiddo Stratum VI figures in. The dispute is over which archaeological material relates to the time of David's reign, or, more specifically, over establishing the chronological connections that permit us to link the archaeological record to the events described in the Bible... Until recently, most scholars dated Stratum VI to the period just before the time of David, making him a candidate for its destruction; a later stratum would then represent the town of David and Solomon. However, in a series of articles,1 as well as in a recent interview in this magazine,* the head of Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, Israel Finkelstein, has argued forcefully that Megiddo Stratum VI should be dated to the period of David and Solomon (otherwise known as the United Monarchy). Stratum VI was destroyed, he contends, by the Egyptian Pharaoh Sheshonq I, the Shishak of the Bible (1 Kings 14:25-26; 2 Chronicles 12:2-9). All scholars agree that Sheshonq/Shishak cut a devastating swath through Israel in about 925 B.C.E. A list of towns he conquered and destroyed is inscribed in a poorly preserved hieroglyphic inscription in the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. More than 50 towns are named, including Megiddo... Following Tiglath-pileser III's conquest of Megiddo in 732 B.C.E., the town became the capital of the Assyrian province Magiddu. By the fourth century B.C.E. Megiddo's importance waned, and it ceased to be an important site.
Was It David or Shishak?
by Timothy P. Harrison
Wasn’t long before Soloman lost his place either.
Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, 588 BC
then
King Nebuchadnezzar visits the ruins of King Solomons temple.
There were many, many years and kings between Solomon and Zedekiah.........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah
The first solomans temple lasted 495 years and the second temple lasted around 510 if I remember so “not long” was my fault.
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