{"id":258,"date":"2021-10-02T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T16:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=258"},"modified":"2022-07-16T21:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:29:41","slug":"king-sized-controversy","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/lecture\/king-sized-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"King Sized Controversy: Evaluating the Extent of David\u2019s Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rachel Urowitz,<\/strong> Lecturer, University of Toronto<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-259 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/khirbet5cover-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/khirbet5cover-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/khirbet5cover-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/khirbet5cover-440x252.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/khirbet5cover.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The extent of the kingdom of Judah has been in the limelight since the discovery of Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Elah Valley in Israel in 2007. Archaeologists at this site have proclaimed that it is directly linked to David\u2019s kingdom and that it proves the strength and size of Judah in the Iron Age. This lecture will examine the archaeological record of the Kingdom of Judah in the 10th century BCE and introduce theories that challenge the strength and size of David\u2019s kingdom in this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Urowitz, Lecturer, University of Toronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[57,32,19],"tribe_events_cat":[18],"class_list":["post-258","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-judaism","tag-levant","tribe_events_cat-toronto-chapter","cat_toronto-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/258\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}