TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS ז Preface ט Introduction Addendum : Letters from Jerusalem in the el-Amarna Archive , II The Dawn of Jerusalem - Abraham Malamat 13 Physical Conditions on the Development of Jerusalem - Rehav Rubin 1 Chapter I Jerusalem and its Environs : The Impact of Geographical and TRANSLATED BY Z 1 PPORA RaINEY , INTRODUCED AND ANNOTATED by Shmuel Ahituv 23 V Between Egypt and Jerusalem , and the Destruction of Jerusalem - to j 0 siah - m 0 rdechai cog an 67 IV Royal City and Temple City : The History of Jerusalem from David Protohistoric Times to the End of the Iron Age - Aren Maeir 33 III Jerusalem before King David : An Archaelogical Survey from _Ze'ev Herzog 155 VIII The Temple of Solomon : Its Plan and Archaeological Background - VII the temple of solomon - avigdor horovitz 131 Period - Ronny Reich 93 VI The Topography and Archaeology of Jerusalem in the First Temple Abraham Malamat 85  To the book