Archaeologist Amnon Ben-Tor Explains Hazor on Site

Amnon Ben-Tor, Hebrew University Professor and the renown archaeologist excavating at Hazor, spends 15 minutes teaching the importance of Hazor, identifying some key finds at Hazor, explaining the strata at Hazor and pointing out the Canaanite city gate and cultic podium uncovered at the city gate. Dr. Carl Rasmussen has brought his class to Hazor. Galyn Wiemers video tapes the conversation.

[@vdoniel]

Thank you for sharing this video.

[@wazlwazl]

I like the bit with the snake

[@scin3759]

Sure there are some nice finds from Hazor, like fragment of that Egyptian Sphinx. 1:41. How did it get there, and by whom was it brought there?

[@501Mobius]

It was Canaanite and was destroyed by fire in the 13th century. What does that sound like?

[@scin3759]

Ummm, 10th century Salomonic gate on other side? Was it connected with Salomon? 8:41.

[@thomaszaccone3960]

How old is Hazor?

[@scin3759]

I am curious as to who lived in Tel Hazor in the Middle and late Bronze Age? 2:21.

[@Tzimiskes3506]

it was the canaanites you moron

[@scin3759]

2:04. I wonder which country he is talking about? Perhaps the word 'region' is better.

[@Tzimiskes3506]

have your not learnt to distinguish?

[@randomguyodst46]

It’s hard to imagine that dragons took over hazor.

[@andrewlucas266]

Amazing that the Bible records Joshua's burning of this and many other cities of the Amorites (OT Joshua Chapter11) and you don't trust the Bible? Not even as a historical record? I am amazed at how an historical record is disregarded because of it's religious significance. The Western world and it's fascination with it's materialistic world view is bewildering to me. The whole world which you are examining is shrouded in the supernatural with monuments to the deities they serve and according to the OT it was these deities and what they sacrificed to them (child sacrifice was common) that brought them to their end. Joshua was to spare none of them and not to touch anything of theirs particularly their idols. He burnt their cities or they fell down from just walking around them for a week! It was divine judgment according to the record and that was told to Abraham 400 years prior..........the reason for the wait? their (Amorites) iniquity was not yet complete,(Genesis 15:16). If He judged the Amorites for their iniquity as He did, I wonder what is in stall for us in the West with out iniquities? Or am I witnessing it right now (25 June 2020)

[@soundgardener4940]

Recent studies have shown that modern inhabitants of Lebanon share over 94% of DNA with ancient Canaanites. Meaning, the Canaanites weren't genocided by the Israelites; yet another Old Testament fiction. The origin story of the Hebrews recounted in the OT is almost entirely devoid of supporting physical evidence, ofc; characters such as Joshua, Moses, David, Abraham, Noah etc are obviously as fictional as -Yehousha ben Yosef- Jesus (the) Christ. Per Jewish historian Shlomo Sand _('The Invention of the Jewish People')_ most Israeli Jews have little to no genetic link with ancient Hebrews; so not only is the Old Testament account false with regards to the extinction of the Canaanites by the Hebrews, as it turns out, vanishingly little remains of the ancient Hebrews, while the descendants of the Canaanites have managed to persist as a distinct genetic group for thousands upon thousands of years. Curious how the denizens of Israel are called Israelis, rather than Israelites. More names makes the fraud easier to perpetuate I guess (Hebrews, Israelites, Israelis, Judahites, Jews, Benjamites, Zealots, Levites, Pharisees, Semites, Ashkenazi, Sephardim, Khazars etc etc ad infinitum ;)

[@thomaszaccone3960]

DON'T STEP ON THE SNAKE!!!

[@scin3759]

Yeah, who destroyed Tel Hazor? 7:13.

[@scin3759]

'Hazar fell to the Israelites' ? Nice after it was abandoned for 150 years or so?

[@Tzimiskes3506]

"horrible English comprehensive skills?"

[@scin3759]

Umm, laws from the Old Testament that sounds like the laws of Hammurabi. We know which one to trust. 2:53.

[@Tzimiskes3506]

Though they may be similar doesn't mean that they are causal... We can conclude using scholars that the 10 commandments were not influenced by hammurabis code, including 613 jewish laws... care to elaborate ignoramus?

[@georgearigeorge]

Hazor is Jericho, it matches the description perfectly and its on a hill which makes it perfect for the israelites to encircle it 7 days.

[@georgearigeorge]

They came from gilead which is gilgal rephaim, towards mount meron which is shechem, and they passed Hazor the real Jericho. Deuteronomy 11:30

[@Watchandserve]

Jericho HAS to be positioned near to the crossing at Gilgal, where Israel were encamped before the crossing. Archaeologists have identified the walls have fallen in a manner consistent with an earthquake. Jericho, being close to the Jordan was NOT on a hill. Hazor is on a very prominent hill.

[@georgearigeorge]

Below hazor was found a bunch of pillars which joshua set up at gilgal. the archaeologists took the pillars from below hazor and placed them in hazor site calling them "house of pillars"

[@scin3759]

Don't quite understand how they knew that it was an Israelite city in the 9th century BCE. Hope they are using better evidence than the Bible to make this claim. 7:56.

[@thomaszaccone3960]

They can tell by potsherds and the Bible is historical. See professor David Rohl on the Exodus and on Hazor. The Pharoah of the Exodus was NOT Ramses the Great (II) but Dudimose. The chronology classically employed is off by several hundred years.

[@scin3759]

Ok so Israel controls Tel Hazor in the 9th Century BCE. 5:57.

[@HAPILIPINIM]

The archaeological remains suggest that after its destruction, the city of Hazor was rebuilt as a minor village within "the territory of Naphtali" (Joshua 19:36). bneibilhah.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-archaeological-remains-suggest-that.html

[@scin3759]

Tel Hazor is a Canaanite City in the 10th Century. 6:43.

[@scin3759]

I see. So he claims the Proto Israelites destroyed Tel Hazor in the 10th Century. Finally we have some evidence of their existence! 9:16.

[@scin3759]

No, I don't trust the bible. But I trust evidence on the ground. 1:28

[@Tzimiskes3506]

then there is no disagreement!

[@scin3759]

Look at the bible? Ummmm, sounds like mythology.

[@Tzimiskes3506]

then i suppose you have not learnt to read...