Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction • 1. In King David’s Footsteps: Bible, History and Archaeology • 2. The Curtain Rises on the Sorek and Elah Valleys Part II. The Story of the Khirbet Qeiyafa Excavations 3. The City during the Period of King David: Construction and Urban Planning • 4. The Finds: A City Frozen in Time • 5. Greetings from the Past: The Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscriptions • 6. Cult in Judah prior to the construction of Solomon’s Temple Part III. What is the Significance of the Finds from Khirbet Qeiyafa? 7. Khirbet Qeiyafa: Biblical Shaaraim • 8. David’s Kingdom • 9. Solomon’s Palace and the First Temple • 10. Summary

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A first-hand account of the electrifying discoveries at a previously unidentified city at Khirbet Qeiyafa in Israel from the time of King David, which sheds new light on biblical history and the origins of the Hebrew script

About the Author

Yosef Garfinkel is Yigael Yadin Professor for the Archaeology of the Land of Israel, Biblical Archaeology Department of the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Head of the Berman Center
for Biblical Archaeology.

Saar Ganor was co-director of the excavations at Khirbel Qeiyafa. Michael G. Hasel is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology at Southern Adventist University in Tennessee, USA.

Reviews

'This study … exhibits the virtues of committed scholarship in a land where anger and assertion frequently crowd out careful qualification and a willingness to consider varied arguments' - Diarmaid MacCulloch, London Review of Books

'It is a real pleasure to read an account of an excavation presented as a fascinating detective story and an intellectual adventure … a well-considered and absorbing account' - Minerva

'A most interesting and instructive book … a very readable, attractively produced work' - Methodist Recorder