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History of Ancient Israel and Historiography: Recent Archaeological Results for United Kingdom Period

  • Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies
  • Abbr : KJOTS
  • 2024, 30(3), pp.9-51
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Old Testament Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Hoo-Goo Kang 1

1서울장신대학교

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ABSTRACT

The period of United Kingdom, dated to the 10th century BCE in biblical archaeology, is one of the most vehemently debated periods for the history of ancient Israel. Scholars’ opinions lay in wide range from nihilistic point of view denying the existence of United Kingdom to the one accepting the biblical description in face value. This paper examines methodological matrix in three main sources for reconstructing the history of ancient Israel (biblical source, historical source and archaeological source), and analyzed historical sources as well as archaeological results from Jerusalem, Khirbet Qeiyafa, Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, Tel Gezer and settlement sites in the Negev. It argues that the archaeological excavations in the land of Israel so far revealed the realities of the period of United Kingdom, dated to the 10th centiury BCE and that they are assumed to provide material culture for state formation and geo-political status of Jerusalem. This leads us to consider that the biblical descriptions for the United Kingdom period could be main historical source even though we acknowledge that it is interpreted in religious point of view and a part of Deuteronomistic History composed in centuries later.

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