Jerusalem. The Biography

Fall of Samaria’, in
Oxford History
209. Two sets of Ten Commandments: see Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. Two sackings of Shechem: Genesis 34 and Judges 9. Goliath two versions: 1 Samuel (henceforth S) 17 and 2 S 21.19. T. C. Mitchell,
The Bible in the British Museum
(henceforth
BM
), 14 Merneptah Stela. Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, ‘Tenth Century to 586 BC: House of the Lord (Beyt YHWH)’, in
Sacred Esplanade
15–35. H. J. Franken, ‘Jerusalem in the Bronze Age’, in K. J. Asali (ed.),
Jerusalem in History
(henceforth Asali) 11–32.
4 Saul and David: 1 S 8–2 S 5. David and Goliath 1 S 17 and 2 S 21.19. Saul’s armour-bearer and lyre-player: 1 S 16.14–23. Anointed by Samuel: 1 S 16.1–13. Marries Saul’s daughter: 1 S 18.17–27. Ziklag: 1 S 27.6. Rule in Hebron: 2 S 5.5. Lament: 2 S 1.19–27; King of Judah: 2 S 2.4. David’s Philistine and Cretan guards: 2 S 8.18 and 1 Chronicles (henceforth C) 18.17. Ronald de Vaux,
Ancient Israel: Its Life and Institutions
(henceforth de Vaux) 91–7. Slings: James K. Hoffmeier,
Archaeology of the Bible
(henceforth Hoffmeier) 84–5. Reich, Shukron and Lernau, ‘Findings from the Iron Age II in the Rock-Cut Pool near the Spring’,
Israel Exploration Journal
57 (2007) 153–69.
5 2 S 6, 2 S 7.2–13. Takes Jerusalem: 2 S 5, 2 S 24.25, 2 S 5.6–9, 2 S 7.2–3, 2 S 6.13–18. Renames Jerusalem: 2 S 5.7–9 and 1 C 11.5–7. Builds wall: 2 S 5.9. Hurowitz,
Sacred Esplanade
15–35. David’s palace and terraced structure: Dan Bahat,
Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem
(henceforth Bahat) 24. God and the Ark: de Vaux 294–300 and 308–10. Hurowitz,
Sacred Esplanade
15–35.
6 2 S 6.20.
7 Bathsheba: 2 S 11–12.
8 Absalom and court politics: 2 S 13–24.
9 2 S 24.6 and 1 C 21.15. Abraham: Genesis 22, 1 Kings (henceforth K) 5.3. Threshing-floor and altar: 2 S 24.19–24, 1 C 21.28–22.5, 1 K 1. David bloodshedder: 1 C 22.8 and 28.3.
10 Death and Solomon anointment:1 K 1 and 2, 1 C 28–9. Burial: 1 K 2.10. Hurowitz,
Sacred Esplanade
15–35. John Hyrcanus plunders David’s tomb: Josephus, ‘Jewish Antiquities’ (henceforth JA) VII.15.3.
11 Seizure of power: 1 K 1–2.
12 Solomon, chariots/horse-gate: 1 K 9–10, 2 K 11.16. Horse-dealing/chariots: 1 K 10.28–9. Gold: 1 K 10.14. Megiddo, Hazor, Gezer: 1 K 9.15. Ark installed and Temple inaugurated: 1 K 8 and 2 C 7. David’s spears in Temple: 2 K 11.10. Lane Fox,
Unauthorized Version
134–40 and 191–5. 1 K 2–7 and 1 K 10. Horses, chariots, magnificence: 1 K 10.14–19. Gateways: 1 K 9.15–27. Fleet: 1 K 9: 26–8 and 1 K 10.11–13. Empire and administration: 1 K 4.17–19. Wives: 1 K 11.3. 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs: 1 K 4.32. With whips: 1 K 12.11. Temple and palace: 1 K 6–7, 2 C 2–4. Ezekiel 40–4. 1 C 28.11–19. The Rock tomb: Shanks 165–74. Carol Meyers, ‘Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy’, in
Oxford History
197–203. Traditions of the rock: Rivka Gonen, ‘Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?’,
Biblical Archaeology Review
May–June 1985, 44–55.
BM
, lavers 45; Phoenician style 61. Trade with Hiram and Phoenicians/craftsmen/origin of Phoenicians/Temple designs and as ‘corporations’ with barbers, prostitutes: Richard Miles,
Carthage Must be Destroyed
30–5. Israelites and Phoenicians, purple, alphabet: Miles,
Ancient Worlds
, 57–68. Temple as ‘site par excellence for divine–human communication’: A. Neuwirth, ‘Jerusalem in Islam: The Three Honorary Names of the City’, in Sylvia Auld and Robert Hillenbrand (eds),
Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City, 1517–1917
(henceforth
OJ
) 219. Hurowitz,
Sacred Esplanade
15–35. Graeme Auld and Margreet Steiner,
Jerusalem 1
54. Solomon and Pharaoh, spoils and daughter: 1 K 9.16. Pharaoh Siamun raid; daughter marriage: Wilkinson,
Egypt
404. Tel Qasile potsherd on gold in Lane Fox,
Unauthorized Version
235–40. De Vaux 31–7, 108–14, 223–4, 274–94. Grabbe,
Ancient Israel
113–18. Ivory in Sargon’s Palace in Assyria and King Ahab in Samaria: 1 K 22.39. Phoenician/Syrian parallels: Shanks 123–34 and 165–74. Hurowitz,
Sacred Esplanade
15–35. On archaeology: author conversations with Dan Bahat and Ronny Reich. New dating of Megiddo, Hazor, Gezer: Finkelstein/Silberman 134–41; Omrid building in Megiddo vs Solomon: Finkelstein/Silberman 180–5. Nicola Schreiber,
Cypro-Phoenician Pottery of the Iron Age
, on the chronology of Black-on-Red and its implications 83–213, especially Section I ‘10th