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In researching and writing this analysis of the David and Solomon tradition in its archaeological and historical context, we owe thanks to many colleagues and friends who offered valuable assistance and welcome advice. Among those who discussed with us special historical problems or reviewed draft chapters, we are especially grateful to Professor Donald Redford of Penn State University, Professor Thomas Römer of the University of Lausanne, Dr. Oded Lipschits and Gidi Yahalom of Tel Aviv University, and Dr. Hanan Eshel of Bar Ilan University.
Our thanks also go to Yuri Smertenko of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University for the maps and illustrations that appear in this book.
As always, our agent Carol Mann skillfully guided our concept from the very beginning. Bruce Nichols, our editor at the Free Press for both this book and our earlier book
The Bible Unearthed,
once again offered his unfailingly sage editorial insights and helped us enormously with his equally deft editorial pen.
Our families—Joëlle, Adar, and Sarai Finkelstein and Ellen and Maya Silberman—showed their patience and understanding through months of travel, research, writing, rewriting, and marathon phone calls between Belgium and Israel. We can only hope that the results of our work justify their continuing faith in us.
I.F.N.A.S.
23 June 2005
Abdi-ashirta
Abdi-Heba
Abigail
Abijah, King of Judah
Abijam, King of Israel
Abner
Abraham
Absalom
Achaemenids
Achilles
Achish, King of Gath
Achitophel “Acts of Solomon, The,”
Acts of the Apostles
Adam
Adonijah
Adullam, cave of
Ahab, King of Judah
Aharoni, Yohanan
Ahaz, King of Judah
Ahaziah, King of Judah
Akkadian language
Albright, William Foxwell
Alexander the Great
Alyattes, King of Lydia
Amarna letters
Amel-Marduk (Evil-merodach)
Amenhotep III, Pharaoh
Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), Pharaoh
Ammon
Amnon
Amon, King of Judah
Amos
Amun, temple of, at Karnak
Amurru
Anatolian language
angels
Apiru
apocrypha
apologies
Arabia
Arad
Aramaic language
Aram Damascus, Arameans
“Ark Narrative,”
Ark of the Covenant
Armageddon
armor
Asa, King of Judah
Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria
Asia Minor
Assyria
chronicles of
disintegration of
horse trading and
imperial expansion of
Israel under control of
Judah as vassal state of
Judah’s failed rebellion against
Judah’s yearly tribute owed to
Assyrian Chronicle
Athaliah, Queen of Judah
Athrongaeus
Augustine, Saint
Avigad, Nahman
Aziru
Baal
Babylonia
Cyrus’s conquest of
Israelites’ exile in
Judah destroyed by
Babylonian Chronicle
Balkans “barbarians,”
Bassler, Jouette
Bastam
Bathsheba
Christian metaphorical view of
David’s seduction of
midrash on
as mother of Solomon
Uriah’s death and
Belkin, Lawrence
Benjamin:
highlands of
tribe of
Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus)
Bethel
Bethlehem
Bible,
see
Hebrew Bible; New Testament;
specific books
biblical minimalism
Bilqis
Biran, Avraham
Black Obelisk
“Book of the Law” (“Book of the Covenant”)
British Museum
British Royal Engineers
Bronze Age dates:
Late
Middle
Broshi, Magen
Bunimovitz, Shlomo
Canaan,
see
Israel, Kingdom of
Cantrell, Deborah
caravans
carbon 14 dating
Chalcolithic period
Charlemagne, Emperor
Cherethites
Chicago, University of
chiefdoms, dimorphic
Christendom,
see
Europe
Christianity
David and Solomon story in
early literature of
see also
Judeo-Christian tradition
Christian missionaries
Chronicles, First and Second books of
books of Ezra and Nehemiah compared with
David and Solomon story in
Israel redefined in,
writing of
City of David
City of God, The
(Augustine)
Clovis, King of the Franks
Conrad II, Emperor
Constantine, Emperor
Constantinople
Cook, Gila
copper
“Court (Succession) History”:
dating and historicity of
description of
as literature
Omride dynasty and
political use of
courtly ballads
covenant, between God and Israel
“creative historiographies,”
Crete
Cross, Frank Moore
Crowfoot, John Winter
cult worship,
see
idolatry
cuneiform inscriptions
Cyprus
Cyrus the Great
Damascus,
see also
Aram Damascus Arameans
daric,
Darius, King of Persia
David:
bandit period of
Bathsheba seduced by
in Chronicles
as collaborator with Philistines
death of
first nonbiblical use of name
flawed character of
God’s choice of
God’s promise to
Goliath and,
see
Goliath historicity of
Jerusalem conquered by
Jerusalem court of
kingdom of
lineage of
lyre (harp) playing of
psalms and ritual music attributed to
rabbinic scholars and
Saul as enemy of
Saul succeeded by
sons of,
see
Absalom; Amnon
Tomb of
Tower of
Uriah’s death and
wars of
wives of
David and Solomon story:
artistic depictions of
biblical account of
see also
“Acts of Solomon, The”; “Court History”; Deuteronomistic History; “History of David’s Rise, The” biblical minimalism and
Christianity and
in Chronicles
continued power of
dating and historicity of
divine favor in
European adaptation of
evolution of
exorcisms and
first written version of
historical minimalism and
history shaped by
in Islamic tradition
Judeo-Christian tradition and
later sources for
messianic visions and
political uses of
rabbinic scholars and
reasons for composition of
recovering the history of
religious uses of
royal Hellenistic version of
as theology
Western Tradition and
Davidic dynasty
Athaliah’s attempted liquidation of
dating of
end of
“House of David” inscription and
list of
messianic transformation of
Omride dynasty linked to
prophesied revival of
Roman extermination of claimants to
tombs of
Davies, Philip
Dead Sea Scrolls
demons
Deuteronomistic History
anachronisms found in
Chronicles compared with
compilation of
dating and historicity of
description of
earlier and later main strata of
historical minimalism and
moral of
as political program
religious ideology of
revision of
see also
“Acts of Solomon, The”; “Court History”; “History of David’s Rise, The”
Deuteronomy, Book of
Dibon
dimorphic chiefdoms
Dius
divine right of kings
Dome of the Rock
Domitian, Emperor
Donatello
Dothan, Trude
Dryden, John
Duncan, Garrow
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiasticus (Ben Sira)
Edom
Egypt
Assyrian conquest of
biblical lands administered by
as Hellenistic kingdom
modern
New Kingdom period of
Philistines and
Ptolemaic
Sheshonq I campaign and
Twenty-second Dynasty of
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of
Twenty-sixth Dynasty of
“Egyptian, the,”
Ekron
Elah Valley
el-Aqsa mosque 11QPsAp
a
(Dead Sea Scroll)
Elhanan
Ephraim
Esarhaddon, King of Assyria
Eucherius
Europe:
David and Solomon story in
kings of
national identities in
exorcisms
Ezekiel
Ezekiel, Book of
Ezra
Fisher, Clarence
Fitzgerald, Gerald M.
Five Books of Moses (Pentateuch)
4Q505 (Dead Sea Scroll)
Franklin, Norma
Gabriel
Gath
Gaza
Geary, Patrick
Genesis, Book of
Geshur
Gezer
Gilead
Gitin, Sy
Glueck, Nelson
God:
commandments received from
consequences of disobedience toward
covenant between Israel and
David chosen as Saul’s successor by
David’s promise from
as giver of favor
Israel promised greatness by
kingship and
Saul chosen as first king of Israel by
Song of Solomon and
Sophia and
Goliath
anachronistic Greek armor ascribed to
biblical description of David’s battle with
Christian metaphorical view of
conflicting biblical account of death of
historicity of
name of
Greece
hoplites from
Greek language
Hebrew Bible translated into
Guy, Philip Langstaffe Orde
Gyges, King of Lydia
Hadadezer
Haggai
Hagia Sophia church
Halpern, Baruch
Haram el-Sharif
Har Megiddo (Armageddon)
Haruz of Jotbah
Harvard University
Hasmonean dynasty (Maccabees)
Hazael, King of Aram Damascus
Hazor
Hebrew Bible:
authorship of
in Christian missionary teaching
as Christian Old Testament dates of composition of
Greek translation of
Hellenistic knowledge of
historicity and
Homer’s influence on
lands of
as literature
minimalist historians and
rabbinic scholars and
Revised Standard Version of
see also
Deuteronomistic History;
specific books