The article on Hazor in the March 1975 issue of the BAR (“Yigael Yadin on ‘Hazor, The Head of All Those Kingdoms,’” BAR 01:01) appears to endorse Yadin’s conclusion that the references to Hazor and its king Jabin in Judges 4 constitute “a late and inaccurate gloss.” Don’t reject the historicity of the Biblical text so easily. Yadin seeks to base his arguments that the battle of Deborah and Barak could not have been fought against the army of Jabin king of Hazor—and that therefore the references to Jabin and Hazor must be a “late and inaccurate gloss”—on the […]
