The Israelite Conquest of Canaan in the Light of Archaeology

Albright, W. F.

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“…Theories of invasion and conquest (Albright, ; Lapp, ; Redford, ; Stager, ) have given way to more nuanced explanations and systems theory (Cline, ). An earthquake storm that rocked the Mediterranean from 1225 to 1175 BC (Nur and Cline, ), rapid climate change and resultant widespread drought and famine (Cunliffe, ; Drake, ; Singer, ), as well as internal unrest (Zuckerman, ) may have created a multiplier effect of complexity that could not be overcome (Bell, ; Cline, ; Renfrew, ).…”

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Continuity or conquest? A multi‐isotope approach to investigating identity in the Early Iron Age of the Southern Levant

Gregoricka

Sheridan

2016

American J Phys Anthropol

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The absence of non-locals at Tell Dothan indicates that population replacement does not adequately explain the sociopolitical changes observed in the archaeological record. Further, homogeneity among isotope values is indicative of a community that was not highly mobile, suggesting that decentralization and a corresponding transition to a more mobile lifestyle may not accurately reflect the adaptive strategies of all human groups during this period as a mechanism to cope with social and environmental change.

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Continuity or conquest? A multi‐isotope approach to investigating identity in the Early Iron Age of the Southern Levant

Gregoricka

Sheridan

2016

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…Archaeological sites dating to this time provide evidence of cultural transition, interpreted as a result of the arrival of foreign peoples (Albright, 1939;Stager, 1985;Redford, 1992;Holladay, 1995). Scholars have argued that the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages "witnessed widespread international trade, the collapse of empires, and the migration of large population groups" (Dothan, 1985, p. 55), including the Sea Peoples (Phoenicians and Philistines) and Israelites.…”

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Bioarchaeological analysis of cultural transition in the southern Levant using dental nonmetric traits

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Hawkey

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Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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To many Near Eastern archaeologists, the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition in the southern Levant indicates the emergence of a new ethnicity. The question remains, however, whether changes in the material culture are the result of an invasion of foreigners, or instead arose from shifting cultural and technical practices by indigenous peoples. This study utilized dental morphological traits to assess phenetic relationships between the Late Bronze Age site of Dothan (1500-1100 BC) and the Iron Age II site of Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir, 701 BC). Information on 30 dental crown and root traits was collected for 4,412 teeth, representing 392 individuals from Lachish and a minimum of 121 individuals from Dothan, using the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System. Seventeen traits from Dothan and Lachish were compared with dentitions from a Byzantine Jerusalem monastery, Iron Age Italy, a Natufian group (early agrarians from the Levant), and a Middle Kingdom Egyptian site using C.A.B. Smith's mean measure of divergence statistic. The findings suggest that there are more similarities between Dothan and Lachish than either of them and other sites. This analysis indicates that the material culture changes were not the result of a foreign invasion. Rather, the Iron Age people of the southern Levant were related to their Bronze Age predecessors.

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“…It also produced and maintained unnecessary gaps in our history which neither biblical nor archaeological scholarship could warrant. Already by the 1940s, an historical understanding of the unity of Israel's historical roots centred in the projection of ethnic migrations of 'semi-nomads', which were thought to be reflected in the tribal stories of the Pentateuch, from the wanderings of Genesis' patriarchs to the tales of Joshua's conquest (Albright 1939: 11-23;Albright 1940;Bright 1950);Alt 1929;Alt 1939: 126-175;Noth 1954). This construction was thought to have been confirmed by archaeology (de Vaux 1946: 321-348;1948: 321-347 and1949: 5-36).…”

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Biblical Archaeology and the Politics of Nation-Building

Thompson

2009

Holy Land Studies

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Since the time of the British mandate, Zionist and, later, Israeli politics of nation-building has strongly influenced 'biblical archaeology' and has significantly undermined the integrity of Israeli scholarship. Critiques from Yael Zerubavel and Keith Whitelam to Nadia Abu El-Haj and Raz Kletter have repeatedly pointed out the consistent nationalistic distortions that have infected the field. The efforts of critical scholars to write a history of Palestine independent of biblical perspectives have corrected such distortions since the 1980s and have raised considerable doubt concerning the legitimacy of the Judeo-ethnocentrism which dominates nationalist Israeli claims on the heritage of ancient Palestine and the Bible.

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The Israelite Conquest of Canaan in the Light of Archaeology

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Continuity or conquest? A multi‐isotope approach to investigating identity in the Early Iron Age of the Southern Levant

Continuity or conquest? A multi‐isotope approach to investigating identity in the Early Iron Age of the Southern Levant

Bioarchaeological analysis of cultural transition in the southern Levant using dental nonmetric traits

Biblical Archaeology and the Politics of Nation-Building

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