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The Proposed Reconstruction of Beersheba Stratum VII

The Proposed Reconstruction of Beersheba Stratum VII


Fig. 19. The proposed reconstruction of Beersheba Stratum VII (after Herzog).

A further objection to Herzog’s model is that, while attributing the need for enclosures to the settlers’ desire “to secure their safety and property,” he is forced to reconstruct his enclosed settlements in poorly defensible positions—on hill slopes, covering only part of the summit, while buildings left outside the enclosing perimeter testify, he writes, to “the settlers’ feeling of security” (Herzog 1990: 228, 232). One should not be surprised, of course, that Finkelstein unreservedly accepts the reconstruction, as well as the comparison (Finkelstein 1988a: 242–43),17 as they seem to agree with his own sedentarization model, based on his excavations at Ê¿Izbet Sarta, in particular his reconstruction of Stratum III.


Meshel, Zeev. “The ‘Aharoni Fortress’ near Quseima and the ‘Israelite Fortresses’ in the Negev.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (May 1994) 294 (1994): 55. Print.
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