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Recent Excavations in Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

David Gordon Lyon
David Gordon Lyon
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Harvard University
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While recent discovery in Palestine has added much to our knowledge of the peoples who lived there, it must be admitted that the results are, in comparison with those obtained in Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, disappointingly meagre. Some of the reasons for this are clear. Palestine was not, like the countries named, the seat of a great empire, with splendid palaces temples and tombs, with boundless wealth and luxury built on the tribute of the nations, with nourishing centres of art and literature. Much of the best that was produced in Palestine has been destroyed by the wars which have so often devastated the country. Still further, the sites where most might be expected, at least for the Hebrew period, yet await investigation—Jerusalem and Samaria. The former, being almost entirely built over, is likely to remain a sealed book. The latter, owing to its great size, would be an expensive undertaking, but not otherwise difficult. The whole mound might be explored, save the eastern end with its village and cemetery.

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Research Article
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1908 , pp. 70 - 96
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1908

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References

1 The work of Doctor Bliss and Mr. Archibald Dickie, 1894–1897, outside the walls of Jerusalem (described in their Excavations at Jerusalem, London, 1898), is mainly a local topographical study, and is not included in this review.

2 Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Tell el-Hesy (Lachish), London, 1891.Google Scholar

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11 Dr. Friedrich Hrozny, the translator of these tablets, suggests (Tell Ta'annek, p. 116) that the name Aḫi-yami is the same as the Hebrew Ahijah (Aḫi-Yahu, Aḫi-Yahweh), but Sellin justly remarks that this is only a possibility (ibid. p. 109).

12 Mittheilungen und Nachrichten des deutschen Palaestina-Vereins, 1907, pp. 65 ff.

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15 1 Kings 9 15, 2 Kings 9 27 23 29.

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18 Quarterly Statement for July, 1907, p. 203.

19 Macalister, Bible Side-Lights, p. 169.

20 Ibid. p. 166; cf. Joshua 6 26.

21 Mittheilungen und Nachrichten, 1906, p. 12. Schumacher compares the pouring out of water before Jehovah, 1 Samuel 7 6, 2 Samuel 23 16.

22 Canaan d'après l'exploration récente, Paris, 1907.