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The City of David After Five Years of Digging

Yigal Shiloh releases preliminary report on excavations in oldest inhabited area of Jerusalem

By Hershel Shanks

Thirty-one pages is a slim product for five years of excavation—even if it is only a preliminary report. So it has been said of the text of Yigal Shiloh’s reporta on his excavations in the City of David, the oldest inhabited area of Jerusalem. The criticism, however, is unjustified—not because there are also four pages of densely packed endnotes; not because there are also 34 pages of maps, plans and drawings; not because there are also 41 pages of plates, often with several pictures to a page; and not because the writing is remarkably clear and condensed (a tribute […]

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Footnotes

1.

QEDEM 19 (1984) Excavations at the City of David I by Yigal Shiloh. This book may be ordered from BAS Bookstore.

2.

The Hebrew word “ophel” is translated as “hill” (Revised Standard Version) and “citadel” (King James and New Jewish Publication Society versions).

3.

“Estimating the Population of Ancient Jerusalem,” BAR 04:02.

4.

Karstic is the adjective form of karst, “an area of limestone formations, characterized by sinks, ravines and underground streams.”

Endnotes

1.

“Kathleen Kenyon 1906–1978,” BAR 04:04.

2.

Kathleen Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem, (London, 1974), p. 9.

3.

“Underground Water Systems in the Iron Age in Israel,” to be published in Archaeology and Biblical Interpretation, Glenn Rose Memorial Volume.