Nadene Goldfoot
“So they send a team to fix it (the sewage pipeline),” said Yehuda Deutch, a tour guide at the City of David. “They were smart enough to have an archaeologist there to supervise. As they were digging underneath the pipe, they came across some ancient findings and the archaeologist said, “We are going to have to come back here and dig, and meanwhile you’ll have to install a temporary pipe.” They excavate from 2004 to 2007, eventually uncovering part of the famous Pool of Shiloah, a giant ritual bath used by tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims who came to Jerusalem on the three festivals of Passover, Sukkot and Shavuot.
It's become the thing today to say that what's in the Old Testament or Torah or Tankah is not true, like there never being a King David.
On the whole, archaeologists have not been religious people, but they are finding, probably accidently, proof of King David's and his son, King Solomon's existence.
In December 2014, Six clay seals found at the archaeological site of Khirbet Summeily in Israel offer evidence that supports the existence of Biblical Kings David and Solomon, says a team of archaeologists led by Dr Jeff Blakely of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The official clay seals, or bullae, unearthed by Dr Blakely’s team at Khirbet Summeily – a small Biblical period village (10th-8th century BC) located in the northern part of Israel’s picturesque Negev desert – provide evidence that some type of government activity was conducted there in that period.
“These bullae were used to seal official correspondence in much the same way wax seals were used on official documents in later periods,” said Dr James Hardin of Mississippi State University, a team member and the lead author of the paper published in the journal Near Eastern Archaeology.
Names of Jerusalem have been:
1. Zion, which is the name of David's fortress
2. City of David
3. David had captured Jerusalem, then called Jebus in 1010 BCE. and it became his capital. David dealt leniently with the Jebusites, but established himself in the city, adding the fortress of Zion and also a "House of Heroes" for his guard. He also constructed a tomb inside the city for himself and his dynasty. Then he transferred the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, making Jerusalem also the religious center for Israel. Israel became an empire reaching from the Red Sea to the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia.
Large Stone Structure (King David’s Palace in Jerusalem)
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David was eventually made king over all Israel (2 Sam. 5:3), and he immediately captured Jerusalem (2 Sam. 5:7), and set to building a palace, which Hiram, king of Tyre, assisted in the construction of by providing cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons (2 Sam. 5:11). From 2005-2007, Israeli archaeologist, Dr. Eilat Mazar, unearthed what is now known as the Large Stone Structure, a monumental building complex with walls that were 6-8 feet wide, constructed of impressive stones, and to which a beautiful 5-foot-long proto-Aeolic capital likely once belonged. It is located above the famous Iron-Age Stepped-Stone Structure, which probably supported the Fortress of Zion and the Large Stone Structure above. The pottery found beneath the Large Stone Structure, dated the first phase of its construction to the beginning of the Iron Age IIa (10th century BCE (1010 -970 BCE), the time of King David. Based on the palatial nature of the structure and the fact that its location matched biblical data (such as 2 Sam. 5:17 – David descending from his residence to the fortress), Mazar identified the structure as David’s Palace.
1939 Born in Jerusalem
1957-1960 I.D.F. Military service
1967 B.A. in Archaeology and Jewish History (cum laude)
1971 M.A. in Jewish History (summa cum laude)
1975 Ph.D. granted by Tel Aviv University. Doctoral dissertation The Political Disposition and Historical Development of Eretz-Israel according to the Amarna Letters (Profs. Y. Aharoni and A.F. Rainey - supervisors).
1975-1979 Lecturer in Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Nadav Na’aman, former professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University notes, “The Large Stone Structure, which Eilat Mazar unearthed and identified as the residence of King David, is indeed a suitable candidate for this building, or more accurately, for its northeastern wing.”
Resource:
https://www.facebook.com/cityofdavid.en/videos/250206686020354/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGn0Xgbd180
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_igZfXsFJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32sD9bCw2x4
https://www.sci.news/archaeology/science-biblical-kings-david-solomon-02371.html
https://english.tau.ac.il/profile/nnaaman
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