ReViews: Who Destroyed Hazor?

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It is a pleasure to review this book by Amnon Ben-Tor, whom I have known for 50 years, and whose on-going excavation at Hazor (since 1990) I have toured many times. I even visited Yigael Yadin’s dig there in 1957!

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Endnotes

1. Amnon Ben-Tor, ed., Hazor III–IV: An Account of the Third and Fourth Seasons of Excavations, 1957–1958 (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1989); Amnon Ben-Tor and Ruhama Bonfil, eds., Hazor V: An Account of the Fifth Season of Excavation, 1968 (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1997).

2. Amnon Ben-Tor, Doron Ben-Ami and Deborah Sandhaus, eds., Hazor VI: The 1990–2009 Excavations, The Iron Age (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2012).

3. Shulamit Geva, Hazor, Israel: An Urban Community of the 8th Century B.C.E., BAR International Series 543 (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1989).

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