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The Biblical Archaeologist

9/1970

Megiddo of the Kings of Israel
YIGAEL YADIN
The Hebrew University
(Professor Yadin broke the news of his restudy of the Megiddo stratigraphy in the BA ten years ago, after the first of three skort campaigns he describes in this article. The report was so important that we squeezed it in tiny type with only three photographs at the end of BA, XXIII.2. The article you are about to read contains muck that is neu, and exciting; for that reason we have left a certain amount of repetition of the 1960 article in place so that the entire picture can be painted. — LFG)
The endeavors of the spule to unearth the building remains of Solomon, greatest builder among Israel's kings, are pars of the enthralling web of the excavations in the Holy Land during the last seventy years. No doubt the crowning glory of Solonion's enterprises is the Temple he built in Jerusalem, to which, understandably, whole chapters in the Bible are dedicated. David, who spent his life warring even beyond the borders of Israel, had no time to build fortified cities (which bis offensive strategy in fact made unnecessary), let alone the Temple in Jerusalem. "You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the Lord bis God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his fect" (I Kings 5:3).
Despite the detailed descriptions of the Temple's plan, its measurements and its holt' vessels, scholars for the Aast few centuries have struggled to reconstruct its plan and form, and their opinions differ to this day, mainly because we are unfamiliar with some of the basic architectural terms. In-
 

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