Word: shechem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a sacred site in the old Biblical city of Shechem in Jordan an altar and a sacred oak existed, according to a tradition preserved orally by the Hebrew people for some 1000 years before the Bible was first written down during the 11th century...
...archaeologists--from over a dozen American and foreign institutions--located Shechem's sacred area this summer below the courtyard of the city's temple-fortress. The excavations, which were begun in 1957 and resumed in 1960 and this summer, have provided scholars with the long history of the sacred area...
...Drew-McCormick-Harvard expedition at Shechem is the largest archaeological dig in the Holy Land and has become an important site for training graduate students and teachers in Palestinian archaeology...
...expedition, led by G. Ernest Wright, Parkman Professor of Divinity, uncovered the ruins of the temple which Abimelech supposedly destroyed in his seige of Shechem. The Biblical story of the revolt is narrated in the Book of Judges...
...archaeologists, in their attempt to relate Biblical history to known events in ancient history, reconstructed parts of the 4,000 year record of the town of Shechem. The team also calculated a more complete dating scheme for the later period beginning at the reign of Alexander the Great...