1 février 2021

Heure: 11h30 - 12h20
Lieu: En ligne

Description de l'événement

Titre : «"The Sound of Silence" – Archaeological Exposure of Three Sites that the Bible Ignored (Ramat Raḥel, Moza and Azekah)» 

Conférence en anglais

Conférencier : Oded Lipschits, professeur à l'Université de Tel Aviv.

In this lecture I would like to demonstrate the big gap between what we know on the history of Judah from the Biblical account and what we can reconstruct from other sources, mainly – from archaeology. I will focus on three different sites, very well excavated, and with a lot of information, indicating that they were a central administrative center in Judah under the rule of the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian empires (Ramat Raḥel), a temple very similar to the one that existed, according to the Biblical description, in Jerusalem (Moza), and an important military and administrative center on the western border of Judah (Azekah). I will try to demonstrate that what we can reconstruct from archaeology was well-known to the ancient Judahites, but it was not in the interest of the Jerusalemite elite to pay any special attention to these places or to describe their actual importance.

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