User:A B Chrysler

Archaeology + The Bible = Historical truth

The city of Jerusalem has a rich history, dating back to the Chalcolithic Period as evidenced by pottery and flint tools cleaned by me while working near the Gihon Spring in the summer of 1984. I saw walls that had been built on bedrock by the Jebusites in the 17th century B.C. Pottery reading at the end of each day on the dig revealed the different time periods represented on that eastern hillside in the City of David. I found an 8th century B.C. storage jar at the base of Hezekiah's mid-slope wall in area D-2 of Yigal Shiloh's dig. I have walked through Hezekiah's tunnel. After such experiences, to pick up my King James Bible and read of King David's conquest of Jerusalem, or King Hezekiah bringing the waters of the spring to the west side of the city so that the Assyrians wouldn't find it, gives me a feeling that now I know what "really happened" there all those years ago. While the Bible is subject to an ongoing assault of changing interpretations, it still remains the major source for historical information for comparison with archaeological data as it is recovered. Dig, read, learn! A B Chrysler (talk) 03:51, 1 June 2010 (UTC)