Who Lived at Hazor? - The BAS Library

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Hazor was the largest Canaanite city during the Bronze Age—and remembered as “the head of all those kingdoms” in Joshua 11:10. Could only the wealthy afford to live within its massive walls, or did average people also call the city home? Explore its population over time with archaeologist Shlomit Bechar.

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Footnotes

1. Shlomit Bechar, “How to Find the Hazor Archives (I Think),” BAR, March/April 2017.

Endnotes

1. Yigael Yadin, Hazor: The Rediscovery of a Great Citadel of the Bible (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 135.

2. Sharon Zuckerman, “Area S: Renewed Excavations in the Lower City of Hazor,” Near Eastern Archaeology 76.2 (2013), pp. 94–97.

3. Wayne Horowitz and Takayoshi Oshima, Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2006), pp. 69–72.

4. Abraham Malamat, “Hazor ‘The Head of All Those Kingdoms,’” Journal of Biblical Literature 79.1 (1960), pp. 12–19; Yadin, Hazor, p. 16.

5. J. David Schloen, The House of the Father as Fact and Symbol: Patrimonialism in Ugarit and the Ancient Near East (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001).

6. Gloria London, “Tells: City Center or Home?” Eretz Israel 23 (1992), pp. 71–79.