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Recent radiocarbon results and King Solomon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Israel Finkelstein and
Eli Piasetzky
Israel Finkelstein
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, The Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Eli Piasetzky
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
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Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphy here offer a new chronological structure for the Iron Age in the Levant. The credit for the construction of massive public monuments in the northern part of Israel is here wrested from David and Solomon and attributed to the later Omride dynasty. The early Israelite monarchs actually ruled over a small kingdom in the highlands around Jerusalem rather than a great empire.

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Biblical historySolomonhistorical archaeologyradiocarbon

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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 298 , December 2003, pp. 771 - 779
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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