Statement

The monarchy tried to create, in both Judah and Israel, a political and religious center for Israelite culture, concentrating power, wealth and religious symbols under royal control. In Judah the center was Jerusalem, home to the king and a temple; the city, inhabited by only a few thousand people in the tenth century BCE, had by the seventh century BCE an estimated population of 25,000 or more.

References

1. p. 17

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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2. p. 17

   supports · main text · ch. 1

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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