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Working in Jordan near the early Israeli capital of Shechem, the group used pottery fragments found in the ruins of a fortress to date the revolution led by Abimelech at about 1150 B.C. A team of 22 scholars participated in the excavation, the largest American archaeological project ever attempted in the Holy Land...
...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...
Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans dwindled again to a tiny community. Today they number barely 350: about 200 near the Jordanian town of Nablus (Biblical Shechem), and another 130 across the border in the Israeli town of Haik...
...spent there serving the closefisted Laban that he might marry his daughter Rachel; how Laban in turn cheated him, substituting his other daughter Leah ; how Jacob ended by marrying them both and taking his family and riches back to his own country; the reconciliation with Esau; the massacre at Shechem; the death of Rachel. This first volume of Joseph and His Brothers is Jacob's story; except for the brief glimpse of Joseph at the beginning he comes into it hardly at all, is not even born until p. 381. His story is to follow in subsequent volumes...