When the Stones Speak
The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David and What Israel's Enemies Don't Want You To Know
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- $279.00
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- $279.00
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This is the untold story of the rediscovery of the ancient City of David in Jerusalem and the powerful evidence that proves the Jewish people’s historical and indigenous connection to the Holy Land.
Since the founding of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have faced nine wars against multiple enemies. Yet, beyond the physical conflicts, a deeper ideological battle has been waged against Israel and the Jewish people. This war, crafted by certain Arab leaders and echoed by international organizations like the United Nations, seeks to erase the Jewish people’s ancestral ties to the land, casting them as outsiders, imposters, and “settlers.”
One thing, however, stands in the way of the denialists: the 3,800-year history of the City of David, a site lying just south of the Old City. Archeologists at the site are unearthing evidence that proves the Jewish people’s origin story in the land for over three millennia. Every shovel of dirt reveals that while others may claim to be indigenous to Jerusalem, the Jewish people are, in fact, more indigenous to the Land of Israel than perhaps any other group living anywhere in the world.
This is the timely story of those who transformed City of David from a neglected hilltop village into one of the most important archeological heritage sites in the world, while facing powerful global institutions and terror groups that would do almost anything to keep this truth hidden. Highly relevant to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book foreshadows the events and historical denialism that unfolded with Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
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Archaeological discoveries made in Jerusalem over the past several decades constitute "physical, tangible, proof that the Jewish people have been indigenous to the land for over thirty‑eight hundred years," according to this ardent if one-sided debut treatise from Spielman, vice president of the City of David Foundation. Aiming to rebut claims by those seeking to "erase Jewish ancestry in Israel," the author highlights such finds as a staircase and ritual pool used in Second Temple times, and an inscription that matched the Torah's description of an event during the eighth century BCE reign of King Hezekiah. The significance of such finds, according to the author, has been undermined by Palestinian leaders looking to erase "all Jewish claims to the land." He also cites other evidence that Israel was the Jewish homeland, including references in the Koran and that the word Jew derives from the ancient Kingdom of Judah. The architectural discoveries fascinate, but Spielman's biases can sometimes distract, as when he ignores evidence that Arabs in Palestine were expelled by Israeli forces during the 1948 War of Independence. This is sure to stir debate.
