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Old 08-25-2005, 12:04 PM   #11
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There is an interesting variation of "spade in one hand and bible in the other" among some contemporary archaeologists. Eilat Mazar hasn't got a clue how she justifiably can arrive at the conclusion that the building was the "palace of David." Conclusion driven archaeology is never particularly inspiring. What makes this building a palace? Mazar hasn't found enough to tell. If she ever got that far, then she'd have to say what contemporary indications say that this was David's palace. What we have is hype, little more.


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Yeah, that bothered me. The fact that she automatically associated it with a biblical structure is pretty irresponsible.

Regardless, it's still evidence of early urban development in Jerusalem.
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Yeah, that bothered me. The fact that she automatically associated it with a biblical structure is pretty irresponsible.

Regardless, it's still evidence of early urban development in Jerusalem.
What makes you think "urban"? Do we know anything about its use?


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Well, buildings this large do not usually appear in small agricultural villages.
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Well, buildings this large do not usually appear in small agricultural villages.
Who said that it was an agricultural village? It had a significant role during the Amarna period a few hundred years earlier, so it wasn't just an agricultural village, though small. It was obviously the local centre of power.

And why buildings?


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Okay, building. A building this large does not usually appear in a small agricultural village.

I'm not an archeologist, but I do trust the New York Times to report accurately.

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Other scholars are skeptical that the foundation walls discovered by the archaeologist, Eilat Mazar, are David's palace. But they acknowledge that what she has uncovered is rare and important: a major public building from around the 10th century B.C.
The foundations give the impression of a large building apparently.

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Who said that it was an agricultural village? It had a significant role during the Amarna period a few hundred years earlier, so it wasn't just an agricultural village, though small. It was obviously the local centre of power.
You earlier claimed that Lachish was the regional center of power until it was destroyed by Sennacherib.

Jerusalem as the local center of power in the Amarna period doesn't say anything about this structure. The foundations date after the 11th century BC, and apparently before the 8th. This would put the building in the 10th or 9th century, long after the Amarna period (14th century).
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You earlier claimed that Lachish was the regional center of power until it was destroyed by Sennacherib.
Jerusalem "local", Lachish "regional".

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Jerusalem as the local center of power in the Amarna period doesn't say anything about this structure. The foundations date after the 11th century BC, and apparently before the 8th. This would put the building in the 10th or 9th century, long after the Amarna period (14th century).
I was talking about the simplification of Jerusalem in the 10th c. BCE as an agricultural village. It's not a big issue.


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I'm not an archeologist, but I do trust the New York Times to report accurately.
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So you don't like the New York Times?

Well it's better than Fox News.
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So you don't like the New York Times?

Well it's better than Fox News.
It's not that I don't like the NYT, it's just I don't trust them. Where were you last year?
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So you don't like the New York Times?

Well it's better than Fox News.
If you must know, it's all the same Murdoch stuff in different wrappers.


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