Let me tell you something. Eilat Mazar has been dismissed by her own fellow archaeologists for being a sellout and a crackpot. She works for a nationalist outfit called Elad which is bound and determined to classify every rock found as something that fucking moses pissed on so they can dismantle Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem and evict them from what they think is biblical "Israel."
There has never been a single artifact found which can be attributed to Solomon's "temple." In fact, there is no historical attestation at all for any fucking "Solomon." In fact, the site of Jerusalem in the 10th century BC seems, at best to have been a miserable little village and more likely a fortified manor house with a couple of huts built around it. Archaeologist David Ussishkin of Tel Aviv University has indicated that the site was totally abandoned in the 10th century.
What is true is that the Assyrian King, Shalmeneser V, who ruled in the 8th century BC was a great king with a major trading empire. In Akkadian his name was Šulmanu-ašarid. Sulmanu. Solomon. Not too hard to figure out where later writers borrowed the name from, is it?
Now I expect you to go hide your head in the sand because the mean old atheist told you your fairy tales are a pile of shit. Deal with it, son.
There has never been a single artifact found which can be attributed to Solomon's "temple." In fact, there is no historical attestation at all for any fucking "Solomon." In fact, the site of Jerusalem in the 10th century BC seems, at best to have been a miserable little village and more likely a fortified manor house with a couple of huts built around it. Archaeologist David Ussishkin of Tel Aviv University has indicated that the site was totally abandoned in the 10th century.
What is true is that the Assyrian King, Shalmeneser V, who ruled in the 8th century BC was a great king with a major trading empire. In Akkadian his name was Šulmanu-ašarid. Sulmanu. Solomon. Not too hard to figure out where later writers borrowed the name from, is it?
Now I expect you to go hide your head in the sand because the mean old atheist told you your fairy tales are a pile of shit. Deal with it, son.
