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How did Israel become a people? Is the biblical story accurate? In what sense, if any, is the biblical story true? Are the origins of these ancient people lost in myth or is there hope to discovering who they were and how they lived? These questions divide students and scholars alike. While many believe the "Conquest" is only a fable, this book will present a different view. Using biblical...

but only three cities—Jericho, Ai, and Hazor—are specifically claimed to have been burned. Charts listing “destruction layers” suffer from the same kind of simplistic reading of the data that undermined the Conquest Theory.32 Nonetheless, the Conquest Theory as a whole has fared so poorly both theologically33 and archaeologically that it has been almost entirely abandoned by both biblical scholars and archaeologists. Despite rejection of the Conquest Theory as a whole, D. Merling has observed several
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