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Hazor at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Back to Basics
Amnon Ben-Tor, Sharon Zuckerman · 2008
Reading ancient testimony
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Document and modern access
- Type
- journal article
- Publication
- Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, vol. 350, 1-18
Records informed by this source
- geography assertion Hazor — geography assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · locates · pp. 1-18; final Late Bronze destruction discussion
Supports identification and archaeological location of Hazor; the point is a representative site locator, not an excavation footprint.
- date assertion Hazor — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 1-18; final Late Bronze destruction discussion
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- event Final Late Bronze Age destruction of HazorEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · final Late Bronze destruction discussion
Supports destruction evidence and one interpretation.
- relationship Hazor — located in — Galilee and northern valleysEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 1-18; final Late Bronze destruction discussion
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- date assertion Final Late Bronze Age destruction of Hazor — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · final Late Bronze destruction discussion
Supports destruction evidence and one interpretation.
- claim The final Late Bronze destruction of Hazor is archaeologically secure, but no named group is directly identified as its destroyer.Evidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · destruction evidence and attribution argument
Documents evidence.
- entity HazorEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 1-18; final Late Bronze destruction discussion
Supports the site description, phase range, or principal research relevance.
- claim Hazor's destruction may have contributed to later cultural memory, but this possibility does not validate the entire conquest narrative or identify the destroyer.Disputed interpretationConfidence in this assessment: lowConfidence in the stated assessmentinforms · provides archaeological observation · destruction evidence
Does not directly identify a biblical conqueror.