ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in this book. The book attempts to address deep disagreements over the history of the location by considering Jerusalem's past through a number of distinct historical perspectives. Each of the interpretive vantage points, nevertheless, grow out of a single methodological framework connected to the history of place or a mode of critical inquiry in which places are understood as a determinative historical influence. It is evident that Jerusalem with its stronghold features and ideological resources would have been a site of authority and meaning for the highland society in which it was embedded. Early 10th-century BCE Jerusalem was found to be something more than a small village of little consequence, and was identified as a site of prestige and meaning within a society that possessed few material manifestations of power that could match Jerusalem's natural and built environment.
