Mount Zion, on the Sides of the North: The Syrian and Anatolian roots of the biblical story

Some recent findings in the areas of Aleppo and Hama (Syria), dating back to the Neo-Hittite period (10th century BC), can be interpreted in a way that has the potential to shed a totally unexpected light upon the real sources of what the biblical story presents as the "United Monarchy" of David, Solomon and their purported successors.

In opposition to the traditional "maximalist" school, which considers those stories as primary and reliable historical documents, but also to the more recent ...