- 31°41′47″N 34°57′26″E / 31.69639°N 34.95722°E / 31.69639; 34.95722
Khirbet Qeiyafa (Arabic: خِرْبَة قِيَافَة, romanized: Khirbat Qiyāfa), also
known as Elah...
- The
Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon is a 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in)
ostracon (a trapezoid-shaped potsherd) with five
lines of text,
discovered in...
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archaeologists Eilat Mazar and
Yosef Garfinkel in
Jerusalem and
Khirbet Qeiyafa, respectively, seem to
support the
existence of the
United Monarchy, but...
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several times in the
Hebrew Bible. Some have
identified it with
Khirbet Qeiyafa, an
archaeological site on a
hilltop overlooking the
Valley of Elah in...
- does not
indicate the
extent of its power.
Recent excavations at
Khirbet Qeiyafa, however,
support the
existence of a
centrally organized and urbanized...
- and on its
north lie the
ruins of the
ancient fortress city of
Khirbet Qeiyafa,
which is
identified with the
ancient town of Sha'araim (1
Samuel 17:52)...
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Judah existed by c. 700 BCE at least, and
recent excavations in
Khirbet Qeiyafa have
provided strong evidence for
dating the
Kingdom of
Judah to the 10th...
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centralized kingdom at that time
remains "tenuous."
Excavations at
Khirbet Qeiyafa by
archaeologists Yosef Garfinkel and Saar
Ganor found an
urbanized settlement...
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emerging from
excavation sites in
Jerusalem by
Eilat Mazar and in
Khirbet Qeiyafa by
Yosef Garfinkel. In
their book, The Bible's
First Kings (2025), Avraham...
- a
potsherd (ostracon)
bearing an
inscription was
excavated at
Khirbet Qeiyafa which has
since been
interpreted as
representing a
recognizably Hebrew...
