علم الآثار و دوره في تكريس المشهد التوراتي في القدس : ”مدينة داود“ نموذجا

Abstract EN

This article addresses the ideological deployment of archaeology by the Israeli establishment that aims to perpetuate Biblical history in Jerusalem.

It examines the so-called “City of David” in the Silwan area as a case study that demonstrates the way this establishment manipulates geography and archaeology to construct a fabricated history of the place and its surroundings.

In the late 1960’s and 1970’s, and within a short period of time after the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, the Israeli Antiquities Authority continued the excavation work that was begun in the nineteenth Century by excavating in the southern and eastern southern area of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Silwan.

This work intensified in the early 1990’s because of the important role these excavations play in the construction and consolidation of the religious-national identity in Israel as well as the role of the historical and archeological organizations that perpetuate biblical toponymy and narratives that will complete the Judaization of the city and repackage it within a biblical cover.