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A Visit with Ahilud

A revealing look at village life when Israel first settled the Promised Land

By Joseph A. Callaway

I first learned of Ahilud in 1969. I had been director of excavations at the ancient site of Ai, the second city taken by the Israelites when they entered Canaan, according to the book of Joshua (Joshua 7–8). I had been working at Ai since 1964, and our field work was nearly finished. We had uncovered a large fortified city of over 27 acres that had existed from about 3000 B.C. to about 2400 B.C. (the Early Bronze Age). Then the site was abandoned for about 1,200 years until about 1220 B.C. At that time, the first Israelites built […]

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Footnotes

1.

For a discussion and picture of the Israelite four-room house, see “The Israelite Occupation of Canaan,” BAR 08:03, by Yohanan Aharoni.

2.

This work was done by James B. Davis, a graduate student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.