Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by

Book
The third campaign at Tell el-Fûl : the excavations of 1964.
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 0897570456 9780897570459 Year: 1981 Volume: 45 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) American schools of Oriental research

Gibeah : the search for a Biblical city
Author:
ISBN: 1281842338 9786611842338 0567415554 9780567415554 9781850752233 1850752230 9781281842336 6611842330 Year: 1990 Publisher: Sheffield : JSOT Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This work is a cross-disciplinary study of Israel's first 'capital city' from topographical, archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives. Challenging William F. Albright's claim that the ancient city is to be identified with Tell el-Ful, the book develops the case for a location instead at modern Jeba, 9 km north-east of Jerusalem, a site-change that bears important consequences for several scholarly theories relating to Gibeah. Among these are the inquest into the historicity and literary composition of the story of the 'Outrage of Gibeah' (Judg. 19-21) and the origins and nature of

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by