Prof. Erez Ben Yosef from the Department of Archeology at Tel Aviv University in a fascinating description of the elite fashion in the tenth century BC, during the reigns of David and Solomon * From the Tel Aviv 360 podcast series of Tel Aviv University
Prof. Erez Ben Yosef from the Department of Archeology at Tel Aviv University in a fascinating description of the elite's fashion in the tenth century BC, during the reigns of David and Solomon.
What is considered a luxury garment in this period? and the rare find from the Arava desert of cloth dyed royal crimson produced from snail species in the Mediterranean Sea, a discovery that changes everything we knew about nomads in biblical times
The research was conducted under the leadership of Dr. Naama Soknik from the Antiquities Authority and Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef from the Department of Archeology named after Yaakov M. Alkov at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Prof. Zohar Amar, Dr. David Iloz, Dr. Alexander Vervak from Bar Ilan University and Dr. Orit Shamir from the Antiquities Authority. The findings were published in the prestigious journal PLOS ONE.
After the publication of the findings, Prof. Ben Yosef explained that as part of a study of the Methmana color textiles that lasted for several years, to the surprise of the researchers, the remains of a fabric, a strand and wool fibers, dyed in the royal crimson color, were discovered. Direct carbon-14 dating established that the findings date to around 1000 BC - in the Bible, the period of David and Solomon in Jerusalem.
Prof. Ben Yosef: "A delegation from Tel Aviv University has been excavating in Timna continuously since 2013. Thanks to the extreme dryness of the place, we also manage to find organic materials such as fabrics, ropes and skins from the Iron Age, the days of David and Solomon - a collection that gives us a unique glimpse of life in the biblical period. Even if we dig another hundred years in Jerusalem, we will not find textiles from 3,000 years ago. The preservation at Timna is outstanding, and is comparable only to much later sites such as Masada and the Bar Kochba caves."
"In recent years we have been excavating a new site in Timna called 'Givat HaEbad'. The name may be confusing, since the workers there were not slaves at all - but expert deaf people. Timna was the center of copper production, the oil of the Iron Age. The production of copper required advanced, and probably secret, metallurgical knowledge, and those who possessed this knowledge were the 'high tech' of the time. Givat HaEbad is the largest copper mining site in the Bekaa and is full of piles of industrial waste, such as slag from the smelting furnaces. In one of these piles we found three painted pieces of cloth. The color immediately caught our eye, but we did not believe that we had found real crimson from such an early period."
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clarification. The finds from the time of David are valid regardless of the argument I presented by Professor Finkelstein about the time of David or Solomon, or that no evidence was found for Solomon. Parents of the period when, according to the Bible, David and Solomon lived.
Kim Shlomo may have been the ruler of Jerusalem. There is nothing to refute the archaeologist's words here.
David, Jeroboam II, King of Israel (Shilah), Ahab (Tel Megiddo), probably Baruch Ben-Naria, has archaeological evidence. Blessed was Jeremiah's disciple. They probably wore what is shown here. The lecturer here presents that most archaeologists believe that Israel originated from nomadic tribes and that there were no distinct cities during the time of David and Solomon.
Is it difficult to put a picture of the find?
There is no archaeological evidence for the existence of King Solomon.
There is no evidence for the existence of a united kingdom. There is evidence for the existence of two kingdoms: strong Israel and small Judah. that the Jewish religion began precisely in Israel.
There is evidence for David's existence. Strong evidence.
Against Israel Finkelstein's articles, there is the Archeology book series by Rabbi Zamir Cohen (not to be underestimated) and many archaeologists.
I read Finkelstein's articles and I was impressed that they are the most scientific. The guy prolongs his findings with very advanced scientific methods. They are published in the best newspapers.
The writer is a believer in the Creator, and a traditionalist. It doesn't hurt to be challenged from a different point of view on something from the Bible.