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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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allows a map to be drawn up of the contours
of Jerusalem at the end of the 8th,
and during the 7th centuries, the time of kings Hezekiah and Josiah.
But this large city is the late Jerusalem from the time WHEN JUDAH WAS A PROSPEROUS STATE. What about David's city, which is two centuries older?
The city that we are looking for has to be somewhere within these contours.
Our investigation will focus on the ridge called Ir David
to the south of Temple Mount. It is here that archaeologists have been looking for King David's capital since the 19th century.
[Ronny Reich, University of Haifa] We are standing on the upper slope, on the upper part of the slope down to the valley of Kidron.
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