Perhaps the most conspicuous omission from Yadin’s article is any reference to his own site, Hazor, where a similar building was found, including shelves between the pillars on which mangers might have been placed. Yet in his Hazor report, despite these inter-pillar installations, Yadin states as to the Hazor buildings, “There is no similarity whatever to the stables at Megiddo, and the characteristic features are entirely wanting.”a The problem with any argument that the Hazor building is, or was originally, a stable is that it has a single corner entrance. But if the building at Hazor is not a […]
