Excavating Hazor, Part One: Solomon’s City Rises from the Ashes

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The fiery destruction of Hazor, the Book of Joshua recounts, was the final episode in the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Once Joshua burned down this key city—“the head of all those kingdoms,” as Joshua 11:10 puts it—the land of Canaan was open to Israelite settlement. Over the centuries, a new city rose from the ashes. According to the Bible, during the days of the United Monarchy, King Solomon fortified the city (1 Kings 9:15). The rebuilding of Hazor by the Israelites during the Iron Age (c. 1200–732 B.C.E.) will be discussed in the first installment of this two-part […]

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Footnotes

See “American Tourist Returns ‘Hazor’ Tablet to Israel After 13 Years,” BAR 02:02.

See “Face to Face: Biblical Minimalists Meet Their Challengers,” BAR 23:04; and Hershel Shanks, “Where Is the Tenth Century?” BAR 24:02.

See Ephraim Stern, “How Bad Was Ahab?” BAR 19:02.

See John Currid, “Puzzling Public Buildings,” BAR 18:01; Graham I. Davies, “King Solomon’s Stables: Still at Megiddo?” BAR 20:01; and the forthcoming article by Moshe Kochavi in BAR. See also Ze’ev Herzog, “Administrative Structures in the Iron Age,” in The Architecture of Ancient Israel, ed. Aharon Kempinski and Ronny Reich (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1992), pp. 223–228.

Endnotes

The Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations in Memory of Yigael Yadin is a joint project of the Hebrew University and Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, sponsored by the Israel Exploration Society. Photos and illustrations credited to Studio Sztulman-Kessel, Jerusalem; Maria Teresa Rubiato, of Universidad Complutense; and staff member Ruhama Bonfil appear by courtesy of the Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations.