What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Reality of Ancient Israel (Biblia.com)

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For centuries, the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including its historical veracity, is being challenged. Leading this challenge is a group of scholars described as the “minimalist” or “revisionist” school of biblical studies, which charges that the Hebrew Bible is largely pious fiction, that its writers and...

new phenomenon at the dawn of the Iron Age ca. 1200, despite a few continuities with the Late Bronze Age. This village culture is also intrusive, at least in the previously underpopulated hill country with its few urban centers. And the overall assemblage is sufficiently homogeneous and distinctive to warrant some label. The only remaining question is: What label? We could of course call them “the early Iron Age hill-country settlers.” Then there is Thompson’s term, “the Iron Age population of Syria’s

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