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TUESDAY, September 6
4:00 pm, 254 Barrows
Mining for Solomon
Prof. Steven Weitzman, Stanford University
After a century-long search for traces of the historical King Solomon, archaeologists have recently claimed to locatethe possible source of his fabled wealth in southern Jordan. Has scholarship at last found evidence of the real King Solomon? Weitzman's presentation will address this question by exploring the pre-history of the archaeological quest for Solomon, a quest with surprisingly important historical consequences that go beyond our understanding of the biblical past.
This event is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program
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