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=== Khirbet Qeiyafa ===

=== Khirbet Qeiyafa ===

Yosef Garfinkel directed excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa between 2008-2016, a site that has received significant attention for its significance to the ongoing debate regarding the ancient Judean kingdom of [[King David]], and it's impact on biblical studies. According to some scholars, including [[Israel Finkelstein]], Israel was never the kingdom under King David it is portrayed as in the [[Bible]], and was rather a small, regional, sparsely inhabited agrarian society. The site of Khirbet Qeiyafa dates to between 1020-980 BC,<ref>Garfinkel, Y., and Katharina Streit. "Radiometric Dating of the Iron Age City." Khirbet Qeiyafa 2 (2014): 2009-2013. pg. 368.</ref> the reign of David, and it reveals a highly centralized  administration requiring hundreds of thousands of tons of stones to construct, and a heavily fortified site, and appears to be a city of Judea,<ref>Garfinkel, Yosef. "The birth and death of biblical minimalism." Biblical Archaeology Review 37.3 (2011): pp. 51-52.</ref> under David's rule at the time. This would reveal that David ruled over an entire kingdom in his time, and establish the historical foundations in which the Bible ascribes to him. Some have tried to get around this by suggesting Khirbet Qeiyafa to be a Canaanite site<ref>Naaman, Nadav. "Khirbet Qeiyafa in context." Ugarit-Forschungen 42 (2010): 497-526.</ref> rather than Judean, however it is now well established that the site is Judean,<ref>[http://qeiyafa.huji.ac.il/Reports/Is_Khirbet_Qeiyafa_a_Judean_site.pdf Why Khirbet Qeiyafa is a Judean City]</ref> and is most likely to be identified with the biblical city of Shaaraim -- Khirbet Qeiyafa is the only site up until its time to have two gates, and Shaaraim means 'two gates'. [[Brian Colless]] says "Khirbet Qeiyafa... has been plausibly identified as Sha'arayim".<ref>[http://cryptcracker.blogspot.ca/2014/04/early-hebrew-syllabary.html The Lost Link

Yosef Garfinkel directed excavations at [[Khirbet Qeiyafa]] between 2008-2016, a site that has received significant attention for its significance to the ongoing debate regarding the ancient Judean kingdom of [[King David]], and it's impact on biblical studies. According to some scholars, including [[Israel Finkelstein]], Israel was never the kingdom under King David it is portrayed as in the [[Bible]], and was rather a small, regional, sparsely inhabited agrarian society. The site of Khirbet Qeiyafa dates to between 1020-980 BC,<ref>Garfinkel, Y., and Katharina Streit. "Radiometric Dating of the Iron Age City." Khirbet Qeiyafa 2 (2014): 2009-2013. pg. 368.</ref> the reign of David, and it reveals a highly centralized  administration requiring hundreds of thousands of tons of stones to construct, and a heavily fortified site, and appears to be a city of Judea,<ref>Garfinkel, Yosef. "The birth and death of biblical minimalism." Biblical Archaeology Review 37.3 (2011): pp. 51-52.</ref> under David's rule at the time. This would reveal that David ruled over an entire kingdom in his time, and establish the historical foundations in which the Bible ascribes to him. Some have tried to get around this by suggesting Khirbet Qeiyafa to be a Canaanite site<ref>Naaman, Nadav. "Khirbet Qeiyafa in context." Ugarit-Forschungen 42 (2010): 497-526.</ref> rather than Judean, however it is now well established that the site is Judean,<ref>[http://qeiyafa.huji.ac.il/Reports/Is_Khirbet_Qeiyafa_a_Judean_site.pdf Why Khirbet Qeiyafa is a Judean City]</ref> and is most likely to be identified with the biblical city of [[Shaaraim]] -- Khirbet Qeiyafa is the only site up until its time to have two gates, and Shaaraim means 'two gates'. [[Brian Colless]] says "Khirbet Qeiyafa... has been plausibly identified as Sha'arayim".<ref>[http://cryptcracker.blogspot.ca/2014/04/early-hebrew-syllabary.html The Lost Link

The Alphabet in the Hands of the Early Israelites]</ref>

The Alphabet in the Hands of the Early Israelites]</ref>