{"id":50176,"date":"2017-02-11T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=50176"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:31:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:31:23","slug":"11-05-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=50176","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists to break ground at biblical site where Ark of the Covenant stood"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Archaeologists to break ground at biblical site where Ark of the Covenant stood<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ILAN BEN ZION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Israeli and French researchers to excavate ancient site of Kiryat Ye\u2019arim, outside Jerusalem, one of the few unstudied biblical tels<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"AerialAerial view of biblical tel believed to be site of ancient Kiryat Ye’arim, west of Jerusalem. (courtesy of William Schlegel)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the few remaining unstudied major biblical sites, where according to the Bible the Ark of the Covenant was kept for two decades, will be excavated by archaeologists this summer for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizers hope the anticipated study of Kiryat Ye\u2019arim (also transliterated as Kiriath Jearim) will shed light on the site\u2019s significance during the Iron Age, the period associated with the biblical account of King David.<\/span><\/p>\n

iryat Ye\u2019arim is mentioned over a dozen times in the Bible as a Judahite town situated near Jerusalem during the period of the judges and King David \u2014 the Iron Age, in archaeological terms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The biblical town is associated with the hill where the Deir El-Azar monastery is situated, next to modern Arab town of Abu Ghosh, 12 kilometers (7 miles) west of Jerusalem\u2019s Old City. A modern Jewish town founded nearby is named after the ancient site.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"JoshuaJoshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant by Benjamin West, 1800 (Wikipedia)”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Shmunis Family Excavations at Kiriath Jearim\u2018s first season kicks off in August under the aegis of Tel Aviv University\u2019s Israel Finkelstein and Christophe Nicolle and Thomas R\u00f6mer of College de France.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe place is important for several reasons,\u201d Finkelstein told The Times of Israel. \u201cIt\u2019s a large, central site in the Jerusalem hills that hasn\u2019t been studied until now. It may be the only key site in Judah that hasn\u2019t undergone a systematic archaeological excavation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Archaeologists to break ground at biblical site where Ark of the Covenant stood ILAN BEN ZION Israeli and French researchers to excavate ancient site of Kiryat Ye\u2019arim, outside Jerusalem, one of the few unstudied biblical tels Aerial view of biblical tel believed to be site of ancient Kiryat Ye’arim, west of Jerusalem. (courtesy of William […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50176"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50184,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50176\/revisions\/50184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}