Recent radiocarbon results and King Solomon
Abstract
Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphy here offer a new chronological structure for the Iron Age in the Levant. The credit for the construction of massive public monuments in the northern part of Israel is here wrested from David and Solomon and attributed to the later Omride dynasty. The early Israelite monarchs actually ruled over a small kingdom in the highlands around Jerusalem rather than a great empire.
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The inclusion of the too-low date RT-3120 by Finkelstein and Piasetzky (2003:774) may have caused the erroneous results reached in that study.
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From <sup>14</sup>C Dates and the Iron Age Chronology of Israel: A Response (2008) · cites this paper as Finkelstein and Piasetzky (2003)
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“Such anchors exist for the twelfth century BC (late Ramesside finds at sites such as Megiddo and Beth-shean; see, e.g. Weinstein 1981) and for the late eighth century BC (the Assyrian campaigns to Palestine; e.g. Ussishkin 1982).”
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<sup>14</sup>C Dates and the Iron Age Chronology of Israel: A Response
Mazar, A., & Bronk Ramsey, C. (2008) · Radiocarbon · doi:10.1017/s0033822200033506 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Iron Age Mediterranean Chronology: A Reply
Bruins, H. J., Nijboer, A. J., & van der Plicht, J. (2011) · Radiocarbon · doi:10.1017/s0033822200034470 · Cited by 39 · see citing works
- Authors
- Finkelstein, I., & Piasetzky, E.
- Affiliations
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2003-12
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 298
- Pages
- 771-779
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W2470012545
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 55.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Antiquity (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Israel Science Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Keywords
- King Solomon, radiocarbon dating, Iron Age, Levant, David, chronology, public monuments, northern Israel, Israelite monarchy
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