Gibeon, Where the Sun Stood Still: The Discovery of the Biblical City (Princeton Studies on the Near East)

James B Pritchard (Editor)

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This first book-length presentation of the results of our excavations at el-Jib has been written for the general reader who is concerned with the contribution that archaeology has made to the biblical history of the site.... In telling the story of Gibeon I have tried to show how the tale of the city unfolded week by week and year by year through excavation and study. I have sought to give in these pages a personally conducted tour, as it were, of the ruins of ancient Gibeon and what we have seen in them.... The results of the excavations at el-Jib are unique in that they can be related with a high degree of certainty to specific events described in the Old Testament. For the first time in the history of scientific archaeology in the land of the Bible an actual place name of a biblical city, neatly incised on clay, has been found under circumstances which make certain the identification of the name with the ruins.--from the Preface

  • ISBN10 069100210X
  • ISBN13 9780691002101
  • Publish Date 21 November 1973 (first published 21 September 1962)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 11 January 1996
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press