of preservation is unusually good . The ornate building of which the railings and capitals formed part was built sometime between the reigns of King Hezekiah and King Josiah and are presumably evidence of the restoration of Jerusalem after the Assyrian siege of the city in 701 BCE, during the reign of Hezekiah . In the excavator’s opinion, this exciting discovery, along with the citadel and palace at Ramat Rahel and the administrative center uncovered recently by the IAA on the slopes of Arnona, attests to a revitalization of the city in the First Temple period after the Assyrian siege . Unlike the capitals, which were discovered in a superb state of preservation, the rest of the building was destroyed, probably during or around the time of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE . We have a very fine yield of articles this year . In the historical section are contributions by Yair Zakovitch and Martin Goodman . Zakovitch, a biblical scholar seeks to uncover the way biblical...
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