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This book addresses one of the most timely and urgent topics in archaeology and biblical studies—the origins of early Israel. For centuries, the Western tradition has traced its beginnings back to ancient Israel, but recently some historians and archaeologists have questioned the reality of Israel as it is described in biblical literature. In Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come...

G. Ernest Wright once wrote, “In Biblical faith everything depends upon whether the central events actually occurred”; and the events he meant were the Exodus and Conquest. But what if they didn’t occur? Where would that leave us? Let me take this dilemma seriously but suggest a possible way out, in particular a way to explain how the Exodus-Sinai tradition might have come into being in the first place. There are several stages in the argument. 1. Biblical scholars
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