Kloner’s reasoning may be summarized as follows: (1) the burial caves of the Dominican Monastery are Iron Age II tombs (eighth-sixth centuries B.C.) because they present several similarities with Iron Age II tombs in the region, whose dating is assured by the pottery (2) the difference between these tombs and the burial caves of the Dominican Monastery can be explained if we assume that they were special tombs, probably the tombs of nobles or even of kings (3) in the Iron Age II period, Jerusalem expanded, probably also to the north (Kloner quotes Jeremiah 31:38), and, according to the Bible, the Judahite kings from Manasseh onward were buried outside the City of David, in the “Garden of Uzza” (cf. The title of Shanks’s article was in the form of a question: “Have the Tombs of the Kings of Judah Been Found?” In a 1987 issue of BAR, Hershel Shanks 1 presented a summary of Amos Kloner’s 2 1986 article published in the journal Levant in which the Israeli archaeologist argues that the burial caves at the Dominican Monastery in Jerusalem are the tombs of the last kings of Judah and their families. Back to Have the Tombs of the Kings of Judah Been Found?: A Response
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