Forced Resettlement and Immigration at Tel Hadid

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When Assyria ruled supreme, it forcibly removed the ancient Israelites from their homeland and settled a new people group in their place. Explore discoveries related to these new deportees—and more—at Tel Hadid. This article includes a special supplement, Digging Deeper at Tel Hadid, to understand the site like the experts do.

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Endnotes

1.
Nadav Naʾaman and Ran Zadok, “Assyrian Deportations to the Province of Samerina in the Light of Two Cuneiform Tablets from Tel Hadid,” Tel Aviv 27.2 (2000), pp. 159–188.

2.
See Shawn Zelig Aster and Avraham Faust, “Administrative Texts, Royal Inscriptions and Neo-Assyrian Administration in the Southern Levant: The View from the Aphek-Gezer Region,” Orientalia 84.3 (2015), pp. 293–308.

3.
See Josephus Antiquities 9.288, who claims that the Samaritans originated from this resettlement.

4.
Karen Radner, “The ‘Lost Tribes of Israel’ in the Context of the Resettlement Programme of the Assyrian Empire,” in Shuichi Hasagawa, Christoph Levin, and Karen Radner, eds., The Last Days of the Kingdom of Israel, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 511 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019), pp. 101–123.

5.
Nadav Naʾaman, “Locating the Sites of Assyrian Deportees in Light of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence,” in John MacGinnis, Dirk Wircke, and Tina Greenfield, eds., The Provincial Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire, Proceedings of the British Academy 143 (Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2016), pp. 275–282.