Khirbet Qeiyafa and the Kingdom of David

Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Elah Valley, Israel, is turning out to be quite an important site in current discussions of the nature of Judah in the early monarchic period. For some of my earlier blog posts on the site, click here and here. CNN now has a short video on the site, with interviews with Yosef Garfinkel, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (click here). "What people try to do is say that the Kingdom of Judah didn't exist," he said. "What I am saying is that it existed."