Comments and Questions about the Interpretation of Khirbet Qeiyafa: Talking with Yosef Garfinkel

Yosef Garfinkel has earned himself merit with the excavation of Qeiyafa. But his interpretation especially the connection of Qeiyafa with the Davidic and Solomonic respectively Judahite (state) rule in Jerusalem between 1020 and 980 BC is not verifiable. Much data speaks in favour of Qeiyafa being a...

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1. VerfasserIn: Niemann, Hermann Michael 1948- (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Harrassowitz 2017
In: Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte
Jahr: 2017, Band: 23, Seiten: 245-262
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Zusammenfassung:Yosef Garfinkel has earned himself merit with the excavation of Qeiyafa. But his interpretation especially the connection of Qeiyafa with the Davidic and Solomonic respectively Judahite (state) rule in Jerusalem between 1020 and 980 BC is not verifiable. Much data speaks in favour of Qeiyafa being a comparatively independent settlement (micro-polity). It was not only characterised by Judah or the mountain region. But it was also not only Philistine in character. Sometime between 980 and 970 BC or slightly later when Gath reached the zenith of its power diplomacy between these groups came to an end. Qeiyafa very likely fell under the influence of Gath. It was probably destroyed during the eastern expansion of Gath and subsequently abandoned. Where its residents went and other questions regarding Qeiyafa remain open. Open for debate is the hypothesis of Finkelstein and Fantalkin that Qeiyafa possessed relations with the Gibeon-Bethel region. Nevertheless, this need not be an alternative to my own hypothesis.
ISSN:2747-4461
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.13173/zeitaltobiblrech.23.2017.0245