The Origins of Jerusalem
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
One of the oldest cities in history, and revered by religions across the world - what do we know about the origins of Jerusalem?
In this episode, Tristan is joined, once again, by Professor Jodi Magness to talk us through the origins of this important city. Looking at evidence from Egyptian New Kingdom texts, the Hebrew Bible and other surviving literary accounts - where does the archaeology align with these sources, and what can it tell us about Jerusalem that these fascinating sources are unable to?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast |
| 0:16.0 | well it's a big topic with a big name back on the podcast. A stalwart of the Ancients |
| 0:21.8 | who's been on the pod before to talk about topics varying from King Herod to Jewish |
| 0:26.6 | Barrel at the time of Jesus to Massada. I am of course talking about the universe, |
| 0:31.8 | you have North Carolinas, Professor Jody Magnus. Jody, she's back on the podcast today to talk |
| 0:39.3 | all about the origins of Jerusalem. Yes, that's right, the origins of Jerusalem. We're going |
| 0:45.6 | back to the Bronze Age. We're going to be looking at what the archaeology is revealing about |
| 0:50.6 | this renowned city's earliest history. And whether this archaeology corroborates with the surviving |
| 0:57.3 | literary accounts, for instance from New Kingdom Egyptian texts and of course from the Hebrew |
| 1:03.6 | Bible. Where does the archaeology align with the literature and where is it a bit more dubious? |
| 1:09.8 | Well Jody explains all, she is a force of nature and I really do hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 1:15.4 | So that further ado to talk all about the origins of Jerusalem, here's Jody. |
| 1:20.7 | Jody, welcome back. Always a pleasure having you on the Ancients podcast. Thank you, |
| 1:33.1 | it's a pleasure to be back. And for quite a topic, we've always had you for the |
| 1:37.0 | biggest topics. Our last one on King Herod was incredibly popular. And now the origins of Jerusalem, |
| 1:43.8 | this just feels from an outsider from a job logs looking in quite a prickly, quite a tricky topic. |
| 1:50.6 | For an archaeologist to sink your teeth into. |
| 1:53.0 | Right, yes. So a little bit of background, this is part of the subject of a book that I have just |
| 1:59.5 | written. I just finished a sabbatical and my sabbatical project was a trade book on Jerusalem, |
| 2:06.7 | basically the history and archaeology of Jerusalem, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. |
| 2:12.5 | And the manuscript is now out for reviews. So I'm waiting to hear from the publisher. But it's a |
| 2:18.3 | book that the editor at Oxford tried to persuade me to write for years, really, literally. He |
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