Monday, December 03, 2018

The History of the Temple Mount in 12 Objects: #2

THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: The History of the Temple Mount in 12 Objects: #2 The Early First Temple Period.
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up and meet this month’s guest – the earliest piece of weaponry ever to be recovered from the Temple Mount: ...
The object is a bronze arrowhead. But there is much more to this post. It surveys what archaeology, including the work of the Sifting Project, tells us about the Temple Mount in the "Early First Temple Period" (i.e., roughly Iron Age IIA or the tenth century B.C.E.).

I noted the first post in this series here.

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