Yosef Garfinkel, curator of the Museum of Yarmukian Culture at Kibbutz Sha‘ar Hagolan, director of excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa | Travel - Study - from the publisher of Biblical Archaeology Review

Yosef Garfinkel is Professor of Biblical archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and curator of the Museum of Yarmukian Culture at Kibbutz Sha‘ar Hagolan. He specializes in the Protohistoric era of the Near East, the period of time when the world’s earliest village communities were established and the beginning of agriculture took place. Dr. Garfinkel has been the Yigael Yadin Professor for the Archaeology of Israel since 2007, which is the same year when he began conducting excavations at the fortified city of Khirbet Qeiyafa, a Biblical site that dates to the early tenth century B.C., the period of King David. An outstanding discovery made in the 2008 season is an inscription written in ink on a pottery sherd—the earliest Hebrew inscription ever found.

Bible & Archaeology Fest XII, November 20-22, 2009
Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Fortified City in Judah from the Time of King David
This presentation presents the latest scholarship to emerge from the watershed excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa. Currently there is a bitter debate regarding the socio-political landscape of 10th century BCE in ancient Israel—the time period of Kings David and Solomon. This debate involves various aspects that can be summarized into four major issues: chronology, settlement patterns, political organization and the Biblical narrative. The site of Khirbet Qeiyafa, a fortified city dated by radiometric techniques to the late 11th/early 10th century BCE, clearly indicates that urban centers existed in Judah during the time of King David. Located between Socoh and Azeka, Khirbet Qeiyafa is where the Biblical narrative locates the legendary battle between David and Goliath. The chronology and geography of Khirbet Qeiyafa create a meeting point between mythology, history, historiography and archaeology.

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