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After inspecting the site, we attempted to get further information on the 'House of Yahweh' within Israel. One source we came across was a tour guide book entitled 'A Pilgram's companion to the Land of Abraham' by Yadin Roman of the Jewish Agency for the Negev Tourist Board and included information from the Beer Sheba Tourist Information, Arad Visitors' Center, Central Negev Tourist Information, and Northern Negev Tourism.
In the section of the book 'The Israelite temple at the Arad Fortress' it was stated on pg 41 that "In 1968, Yochanan Aharoni unearthed one of the most remarkable archaeological finds ever discovered in Israel: an Israelite temple in Arad. This find is unique; to this day, over thirty years later, no other Israelite temple has been found." On page 42 it was said that "the temple at Arad is the only Israelite temple ever found, it gives us an insight into Israelite worship and what Israelite temples looked like."
It also mention on page 41 that "From the epigraphic material found at Arad, we know of at least two priestly families that served in this temple, which was situated in a fortress at the edge of the desert, on the border of the kingdom of Judah. These two priestly families are mentioned both in letters found at Arad and in the Bible." The two priestly families mentioned here we clearly understood to have been Pashur and Meremoth that we had previously seen in the May 2001 Edition of the Biblical Archaeology Review magazine.
They also spoke of how similar the house was to that of the tabernacle of Moses on page 47 stating that " It is very similar to how the tabernacle in the desert looked." The image on the left shows page 45 of the book in which it has both the tabernacle of the citadel above and a drawing of the tabernacle of Moses below. Also on page 47 it concluded by stating that the citadel was "a site where a series of strong fortresses were built on top of one another, starting with David or Solomon, right up to the Roman Period." From this final note we conclude that this was a tabernacle of David.
Local Tour guides also helped to verify our results concerning the house of Yahweh. While we were celebrating the 2005 Feast of Tabernacles, a group of tour guides (whom show people the sites in the area), visiting the site, talked to us. The guides supported the 'cleverness' of the conclusion from our research that the House of Yahweh was in fact the city of David. (Yisrael Today video available for purchase on this event) |
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