tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191779088855583678.post1990170387487528922..comments2023-09-18T04:14:35.963-07:00Comments on Archaeology News Report: Archaeologist discovers Jerusalem city wall from tenth century B.C.E.Jonathan Kantrowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13919729222396777240noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191779088855583678.post-77981221995746473152010-02-26T14:00:47.789-08:002010-02-26T14:00:47.789-08:00Could the population have been highly urbanized - ...Could the population have been highly urbanized - most living within the city? Perhaps for their own protection.Jonathan Kantrowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13919729222396777240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191779088855583678.post-41502658779743227782010-02-25T14:01:16.333-08:002010-02-25T14:01:16.333-08:00What I mean is that a massive wall such as this im...What I mean is that a massive wall such as this implies an impressive city, yet such a city is not proportional to the size of surrounding population which in Judea was small, sparse and poor.Uzi Silberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237605497125038306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191779088855583678.post-36915846642461057742010-02-25T13:46:25.194-08:002010-02-25T13:46:25.194-08:00"Financed?" They didn't exactly hire..."Financed?" They didn't exactly hire contractors - laborers, whether slave or free had to be fed - that's about it. And to protect their own city, labor may have in fact, been enthusiastic volunteers.Jonathan Kantrowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13919729222396777240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191779088855583678.post-10610708673374294232010-02-24T08:49:52.428-08:002010-02-24T08:49:52.428-08:00Remarkable, but it doesn't explain the intensi...Remarkable, but it doesn't explain the intensive ancient population survey work carried in recent decades in the Judea/Samaria region that shows the population to be very small at the time --<br />100,000 if i recall correctly. How then is a massive and expensive structure like this financed by a relatively meager and poor <br />9th century BCE population?Uzi Silberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237605497125038306noreply@blogger.com