ABSTRACT
This study of David’s Jerusalem has attempted to address deep disagreements over the history of the location by considering the city’s past through a number of distinct historical perspectives.2 Each of these interpretive vantage points nevertheless grew out of a single methodological framework connected to the history of place, or a mode of inquiry in which places themselves are understood as a determinative historical influence on the course of affairs that once transpired within them. If a unifying theme can be identified within these pages, its accent would thus fall on how the place of Jerusalem itself shaped the practices and beliefs of those who encountered it in antiquity.
