Recent radiocarbon results and King Solomon.(Research) From: Antiquity | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: Finkelstein, Israel; Piasetzky, Eli | COPYRIGHT 2003 Antiquity Publications, Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Introduction

The search for material remains of the United Monarchy of David and Solomon, who ruled in the tenth century BC (Cogan 1992), has been one of biblical archaeology's main endeavours (e.g. Yadin 1970; Dever 1997). One of the major problems it has had to contend with is that relative chronology in the field (what was built first and what came later) can be tied to an absolute chronological system only with the help of finds which anchor the local system to the g...