Enemy at the Gates: The Phenomenon of Fortifications in Israel Reexamined.
This article addresses the phenomenon of fortifications in Iron Age Israel and tries to portray the specific historical background behind their construction by integrating the archaeological data, the extra-biblical sources and the analysis of the biblical text. Of the two clear stratigraphical phas...
| Publicado en: | Vetus Testamentum Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 368 - 383 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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