Biblical Bibliographies
Charles Conroy [www.cjconroy.net]



Jerusalem before its Fall to the Babylonians
Archaeological and Historical Questions



[see also: Geography and Low Chronology]


The bibliography is divided into two sections as follows:

I.    Two volumes of collected studies about Jerusalem

Thompson, T. L. (ed.), Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition. With the collaboration of S. K. Jayyusi (JSOTSup 381 / Copenhagen International Seminar 13; London: T & T Clark International, 2003). [Most of the papers were given at a conference in Amman, Jordan, in October 2001.]

Vaughn, A. G. – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003).
"Most of the essays in the present volume had their genesis as papers that were presented in the 'Consultation on Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology' at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. The papers were presented over a period of four years (1998-2001)." (p. vii). There is a very useful bibliography on pp. 431-481.

II.    Individual studies (including the relevant ones in the two volumes just mentioned)

Albertz, R., "Die Zerstörung des Jerusalem Tempels 587 v. Chr.: historische Einordnung und religionspolitische Bedeutung", in J. Hahn (ed.), Zerstörungen des Jerusalemer Tempels (WUNT 147; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002) 23-39.

Amit, Y., "Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: When Did Jerusalem Become a Subject of Polemic?", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 365-374.

Ariel, D. T. (ed.), Excavations at the City of David 1978-1985, VI: Inscriptions (Qedem 41; Jerusalem: The Institute of Archaeology, 2000).

Auld, A. G. – M. Steiner, Jerusalem, 1: From the Bronze Age to the Maccabees (Cities of the Biblical World; Cambridge: Lutterworth Press; Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1996).

Bieberstein, K. – H. Bloedhorn, Jerusalem: Grundzüge der Baugeschichte vom Chalkolithikum bis zur Frühzeit der osmanischen Herrschaft. Band 1-3 (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. B, Geisteswissenschaften, 100,1-3; Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1994).

Cahill, J., "It Is There: The Archaeological Evidence Proves It", BAR 24/4 (1998) 34-41, 63. [for the accompanying articles under the general title "David's Jerusalem: Fiction or Reality" see N. Na’aman and M. Steiner below]

Cahill, J. M., "Jerusalem at the Time of the United Monarchy: The Archaeological Evidence", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 13-80.

Cogan, M., "David's Jerusalem: Notes and Reflections", in M. Cogan – B. L. Eichler – J. H. Tigay (eds), Tehillah le-Moshe: Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1997) 193-201.

Deutsch, R., Messages from the Past: Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Isaiah Through the Destruction of the First Temple (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Archaeological Center Publication, 1999).

Faust, A., "Residential Patterns in the Ancient Israelite City", Levant 35 (2003) 123-138.

Faust, A., "The Settlement of Jerusalem's Western Hill and the City's Status in Iron Age II Revisited", ZDPV 121 (2005) 97-118.

Faust, A., "The Large Stone Structure in the City of David: A Reexamination", ZDPV 126 (2010) 116-130.

Finkelstein, I., "The Rise of Jerusalem and Judah: The Missing Link", Levant 33 (2001) 105-115.

Finkelstein, I., "The Rise of Jerusalem and Judah: The Missing Link", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 81-101. [this is "a slight revision and expansion" (p.81) of his paper in Levant 33 (2001) above]

Finkelstein, I. – N. A. Silberman, "Temple and Dynasty: Hezekiah, the Remaking of Judah and the Rise of the Pan-Israelite Ideology", JSOT 30.3 (March 2006) 259-285.

Finkelstein, I. – N. A. Silberman, David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of Western Civilization (New York: Free Press, 2006); = David und Salomo. Archäologen entschlüsseln einen Mythos (München: Beck, 2006); = David y Salomón. En busca de los reyes sagrados de la Biblia y de las raíces de la tradición occidental (Madrid: Siglo XXI de España Editores, 2007).

Finkelstein, I. – Z. Herzog – L. Singer-Avitz – D. Ussishkin, "Has King David's Palace in Jerusalem Been Found?", TA 34 (2007) 142-164.

Finkelstein, I. – A. Fantalkin – E. Piasetzky, "Three Snapshots of the Iron IIA: The Northern Valleys, the Southern Steppe and Jerusalem", in L. Grabbe (ed.), Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 B.C.E.). Volume 1: The Archaeology (LHB/OTS 491; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2008) 32-44.

Finkelstein, I., "The Settlement History of Jerusalem in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries BC", RB 115 (2008) 499-515

Finkelstein, I., "A Great United Monarchy? Archaeological and Historical Perspectives", in R. G. Kratz – H. Spieckermann (eds.), One God – One Cult – One Nation: Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives. In collaboration with B. Corzilius and T. Pilger (BZAW 405; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010) 3-28.

Finkelstein, I., "The 'Large Stone Structure' in Jerusalem: Reality Versus Yearning", ZDPV 127 (2011) 1-10.

Friedmann, R. E., "Solomon and the Great Histories", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 171-180.

Galor, K. – G. Avni (eds.), Unearthing Jerusalem: 150 Years of Archaeological Research in the Holy City (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011).

Gertz, J. C., "Konstruierte Erinnerung. Alttestamentliche Historiographie im Spiegel von Archäologie und literarhistorischer Kritik am Fallbeispiel des salomonischen Königtums", BTZ 21 (2004) 3-29.

Geva, H. (ed.), Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem Conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969-1982. Vol. I: Architecture and Stratigraphy, Areas A, W, and X-2. Final Report (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2000).

Geva, H. (ed.), Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem Conducted by Nahman Avigad, 1969-1982. Vol. II: The Finds from Areas A, W, and X-2. Final Report (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society / Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003).

Geva, H., "Western Jerusalem at the End of the First Temple Period in Light of the Excavations in the Jewish Quarter", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 183-208.

Gibson, S., Jerusalem in Original Photographs 1850-1920. Photographs from the Archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003).

Grabbe, L. L., "Ethnic Groups in Jerusalem", in T. L. Thompson (ed.), Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition (JSOTSup 381 / Copenhagen International Seminar 13; London: T & T Clark International, 2003) 145-163.

Guillaume, P., "Jerusalem 720-705 BCE: No Flood of Israelite Refugees", SJOT 22 (2008) 195-211.

Hallo, W. W., "Jerusalem under Hezekiah: An Assyriological Perspective", in L. I. Levine (ed.), Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity and Islam (New York: Continuum, 1999) 36-50.

Halpern, B., "Jerusalem and the Lineages in the Seventh Century BCE: Kingship and the Rise of Individual Moral Liability", in B. Halpern and D. W. Hobson (eds.), Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel (JSOTSup 124; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) 11-107. Reprinted [same title] in B. Halpern, From Gods to God. The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies, ed. M. J. Adams (FAT 63; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009) 339-424.

Hoffmeier, J. K., "Egypt's Role in the Events of 701 b.c. in Jerusalem", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 219-234.

Hoffmeier, J. K., "Egypt's Role in the Events of 701 b.c.: A Rejoinder to J. J. M. Roberts", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 285-289.

Hübner, U., "Jerusalem und die Jebusiter", in U. Hübner – E. A. Knauf (eds.), Kein Land für sich allein: Studien zum Kulturkontakt in Kanaan, Israel/Palästina und Ebirnâri für Manfred Weippert zum 65. Geburtstag (OBO 186; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002) 31-42.

Jamieson-Drake, D. W., Scribes and Schools in Monarchic Judah: A Socio-Archeological Approach (JSOTSup 109 / The Social World of Biblical Antiquity, 9; Sheffield: Almond Press, 1991).

Keel, O., Die Geschichte Jerusalems und die Entstehung des Monotheismus (Orte und Landschaften der Bibel, 4/1; Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007).

Killebrew, A. E., "Biblical Jerusalem: An Archaeological Assessment", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 329-345.

Killebrew, A. E., "Jerusalem during the First and Second Temple Periods: Recent Excavations and Discoveries on and near the Temple Mount", in S. Fine (ed.), The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah. In Honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 29; Leiden: Brill, 2011) 365-386.

Knauf, E. A., "Jerusalem in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages: A Proposal", TA 27 (2000) 75-90.

Küchler, M., Jerusalem: Ein Handbuch und Studienreiseführer zur Heiligen Stadt (Orte und Landschaften der Bibel, 4/2; Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007).

Lehmann, G., "The United Monarchy in the Countryside: Jerusalem, Judah, and the Shephelah during the Tenth Century b.c.e.", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 117-162.

Lehmann, G. – H. M. Niemann, "Klanstruktur und charismatische Herrschaft: Juda und Jerusalem 1200–900 v.Chr.", TQ 186 (2006) 134-159.

Mayer, W., "Die Zerstörung des Jerusalemer Tempels 587 v. Chr. im Kontext der Praxis von Heiligtumszerstörungen im antiken Vorderen Orient", in J. Hahn (ed.), Zerstörungen des Jerusalemer Tempels (WUNT 147; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2002) 1-22.

Mazar, A., "Jerusalem in the 10th Century B.C.E.: The Glass Half Full", in Y. Amit et al. (eds.), Essays on Ancient Israel in its Near Eastern Context. A Tribute to Nadav Na’aman (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006) 255-272.

Mazar, A., "Archaeology and the Biblical Narrative: The Case of the United Monarchy", in R. G. Kratz – H. Spieckermann (eds.), One God – One Cult – One Nation: Archaeological and Biblical Perspectives. In collaboration with B. Corzilius and T. Pilger (BZAW 405; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010) 29-58.

Mazar, E. – B. Mazar, Excavations in the South of the Temple Mount: The Ophel of Biblical Jerusalem (Qedem 29; Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989).

Mazar, E., "Royal Gateway to Ancient Jerusalem Uncovered", BAR 15/3 (1989) 38-51.

Mazar, E., The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations (Jerusalem: Shoham Academic Research and Publication, 2002).

Mazar, E., "Did I Find King David's Palace?", BAR 32/1 (2006) 16-27, 70.

Mazar, E., "The Solomonic Wall in Jerusalem", in A. M. Maeir – P. de Miroschedji (eds.), "I Will Speak The Riddles Of Ancient Times". Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006) 2.775-786.

Na’aman, N., "Cow Town or Royal Capital? Evidence for Iron Age Jerusalem", BAR 23/4 (1997) 43-47, 67.

Na’aman, N., "It Is There: Ancient Texts Prove It", BAR 24/4 (1998) 42-44. [for the accompanying articles under the general title "David's Jerusalem: Fiction or Reality" see J. Cahill and M. Steiner]

Na’aman, N., "When and How Did Jerusalem Become a Great City? The Rise of Jerusalem as Judah's Premier City in the Eighth-Seventh Centuries B.C.E.", BASOR 347 (2007) 21-56.

Ortiz, S. M., "Deconstructing and Reconstructing the United Monarchy: House of David or Tent of David (Currents Trends in Iron Age Chronology)", in J. Hoffmeier and A. Millard (eds.), The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions. The Proceedings of a Symposium, August 12-14, 2001 at Trinity International University (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004) 121-147.

Otto, E., Das antike Jerusalem: Archäologie und Geschichte (Beck'sche Reihe, 2418; München: Beck, 2008).

Rainey, A. F., "Stones for Bread. Archaeology versus History", NEA 64 (2001) 140-149.

Reich, R. – E. Shukron, "The Urban Development of Jerusalem in the Late Eighth Century b.c.e.", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 209-218.

Reich, R. – E. Shukron, "On the Original Length of Hezekiah's Tunnel: Some Critical Notes on David Ussishkin's Suggestions", in in A. M. Maeir – P. de Miroschedji (eds.), "I Will Speak The Riddles Of Ancient Times". Archaeological and Historical Studies in Honor of Amihai Mazar on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006) 2.795-800.

Reich, R. – E. Shukron – O. Lernau, "Recent Discoveries in the City of David, Jerusalem", IEJ 57 (2007) 153-169.

Roberts, J. J. M., "Egypt, Assyria, Isaiah, and the Ashdod Affair: An Alternative Proposal", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBL Symposium Series, 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 265-283.

Sawah, F., "Jerusalem in the Time of the Kingdom of Judah", in T. L. Thompson (ed.), Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition (JSOTSup 381 / Copenhagen International Seminar 13; London: T & T Clark International, 2003) 114-144.

Schniedewind, W. M., "Jerusalem, the Late Judaean Monarchy, and the Composition of Biblical Texts", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 375-393.

Shea, W. H., "Jerusalem under Siege. Did Sennacherib Attack Twice?", BAR 25/6 (1999) 36-44, 64.

Silberman, N. A., "Archaeology, Ideology, and the Search for David and Solomon", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 395-405.

Steiner, M., "The Archaeology of Ancient Jerusalem", CR:BS 6 (1998) 143-168.

Steiner, M., "It's Not There: Archaeology Proves A Negative", BAR 24/4 (1998) 26-33, 62-63. [for the accompanying articles under the general title "David's Jerusalem: Fiction or Reality" see J. Cahill and N. Na’aman]

Steiner, M., "Jerusalem in the Tenth and Seventh Centuries BCE: From Administrative Town to Commercial City," in A. Mazar (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Iron Age in Israel and Jordan (JSOTSup 331; Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 280-288.

Steiner, M. (ed.), Excavations by Kathleen M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967, Volume III: The Settlement in the Bronze and Iron Ages. With an appendix by D. Boas-Vedder (Copenhagen International Series, 9; London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001).

Steiner, M., "Expanding Borders: The Development of Jerusalem in the Iron Age", in T. L. Thompson (ed.), Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition (JSOTSup 381 / Copenhagen International Seminar 13; London: T & T Clark International, 2003) 68-79.

Steiner, M., "The Evidence from Kenyon's Excavations in Jerusalem: A Response Essay", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 347-363.

Steiner, M. L., "The Notion of Jerusalem as a Holy City", in R. Rezetko – T. H. Lim – W. B. Aucker (eds.), Reflection and Refraction: Studies in Biblical Historiography in Honour of A. Graeme Auld (VTSup 113; Leiden: Brill, 2007) 447-458.

Steiner, M., "Propaganda in Jerusalem: State Formation in Iron Age Judah", in L. Grabbe (ed.), Israel in Transition: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 B.C.E.). Volume 1: The Archaeology (LHB/OTS 491; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2008) 193-202.

Tarler, D. – J. M. Cahill, "David, City of", ABD II (1992) 52-67.

Tatum, L., "Jerusalem in Conflict: The Evidence for the Seventh-Century b.c.e. Religious Struggle over Jerusalem", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 291-306.

Thompson, T. L., "An Introduction: Can a History of Ancient Jerusalem and Palestine be Written?", in T. L. Thompson (ed.), Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition (JSOTSup 381 / Copenhagen International Seminar 13; London: T & T Clark International, 2003) 1-15.

Ussishkin, D., The Village of Silwan. The Necropolis from the Period of the Judean Kingdom (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society / Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1993).

Ussishkin, D., "The Water Systems of Jerusalem during Hezekiah's Reign", in M. Weippert – S. Timm (eds.), Meilenstein. Festgabe für Herbert Donner zum 16. Februar 1995 (Ägypten und Altes Testament, 30; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1995) 289-307.

Ussishkin, D., "Jerusalem as a Royal and Cultic Center in the 10th-8th Centuries B.C.E.", in W. G. Dever – S. Gitin (eds.), Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past. Canaan, Ancient Israel, and their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina. Proceedings of the Centennial Symposium W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and American Schools of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, May 29-31, 2000 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003) 529-538.

Ussishkin, D., "Solomon's Jerusalem: The Text and the Facts on the Ground", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 103-115.

Ussishkin, D., "Sennacherib's Campaign to Philistia and Judah: Ekron, Lachish, and Jerusalem", in Y. Amit et al. (eds.), Essays on Ancient Israel in its Near Eastern Context. A Tribute to Nadav Na’aman (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006) 339-357.

Whitelam, K. W., "Imagining Jerusalem", in T. L. Thompson (ed.), Jerusalem in Ancient History and Tradition (JSOTSup 381 / Copenhagen International Seminar 13; London: T & T Clark International, 2003) 272-289.

Younger, K. L., Jr., "Assyrian Involvement in the Southern Levant at the End of the Eighth Century b.c.e.", in A. G. Vaughn – A. E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period (SBLSymS 18; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 235-263.



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