Archaeology · 8 · Josiah and Huldah
A society collapsed
Only seven of fifty excavated Judean sites show continuity from the seventh to the fifth century BCE. The population may have fallen from about 110,000 to about 40,000.
From the ruins came the most enduring book.
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Four-room houses, burial caves, and pillar figurines disappear from the record. Many survivors likely squatted among the ruins. The age of small territorial states was over; empires would rule the land for millennia.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 132–133
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