Book contents
- The Bible’s First Kings
- The Bible’s First Kings
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United Monarchy in the Bible and Contemporary Scholarship
- Part II The Archaeology of the Tenth Century BCE
- Chapter 4 Abandoned Rural Villages and the Beginning of Highlands Fortifications
- Chapter 5 Ceramic Repertoire and Social Change in Philistia and Israel
- Chapter 6 Resettling the Shephelah
- Chapter 7 What Happened to Philistia in the Tenth Century?
- Chapter 8 Building in the Swamps of the Sharon Plain
- Chapter 9 The Beersheba Valley, the Settlement of the Negev Highlands, and the Copper Mines of Edom
- Chapter 10 Edom, Moab, Ammon, and the Gilead
- Chapter 11 The Cities and Villages of the Northern Valleys
- Chapter 12 The Galilee and the Phoenicians
- Part III A New Paradigm
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 11 - The Cities and Villages of the Northern Valleys
from Part II - The Archaeology of the Tenth Century BCE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2025
- The Bible’s First Kings
- The Bible’s First Kings
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United Monarchy in the Bible and Contemporary Scholarship
- Part II The Archaeology of the Tenth Century BCE
- Chapter 4 Abandoned Rural Villages and the Beginning of Highlands Fortifications
- Chapter 5 Ceramic Repertoire and Social Change in Philistia and Israel
- Chapter 6 Resettling the Shephelah
- Chapter 7 What Happened to Philistia in the Tenth Century?
- Chapter 8 Building in the Swamps of the Sharon Plain
- Chapter 9 The Beersheba Valley, the Settlement of the Negev Highlands, and the Copper Mines of Edom
- Chapter 10 Edom, Moab, Ammon, and the Gilead
- Chapter 11 The Cities and Villages of the Northern Valleys
- Chapter 12 The Galilee and the Phoenicians
- Part III A New Paradigm
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Most of the cities in the fertile Jezreel, Beth-Shean, and the adjacent valleys, which flourished in the Iron I, were destroyed in the beginning of the Iron IIA. Some were then rebuilt along very different lines. At the same time, in contrast to the large-scale village abandonment occurring throughout the land, some farming villages continued and were even established. What happened to the cities and what connection might there be to the continued existence of the villages? It appears that the expanding highland polity conquered the region and destroyed most cities – the only exceptions being cities that collaborated with them – transferring some of the inhabitants of these destroyed cities, before rebuilding some of them, often along different lines. This newly conquered area was important economically not only because of the roads that crossed it, but also because of its agricultural potential. Thus the new polity maintained many villages there, even transferring population from the conquered cities to these villages.
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- The Bible's First KingsUncovering the Story of Saul, David, and Solomon, pp. 242 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025