In early Jerusalem, there was evidence of houses created small villages and early settlement. Their livelihood was around vegetables plotted on small plots of land that was made available because of water and hearding.
Professor Cargill explained that many of these stories we discuss in lecture are from the bible – but he tries to back it up with scientific evidence. Many of the claims from the bible are true and backed up by scientific and archeological evidence, many are not. In fact, some stories have evidence to the contrary.
Something that I found interesting from this lecture was the Execration text. On these texts, you would write the names of your enemies on them and then you smashed them. It was almost magical. These showed that Jerusalem had people living there in 1900 BCE and that it was significant enough to have enemies in Egypt.
Another interesting fact is that the existence of david is controvercial- a lot of biblical scholars doubt that he existed, EXCEPT the Tel Dan Inscription- which demonstrates that there were some people who refered to themselves as the people of/ descendents of David. Someone must have thought he was real a long time ago...
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