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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...

caused destructions in the late 13th or early 12th century B.C. (the one possible exception being Tell el-ʿUmeiri, discussed above). We have now surveyed in some detail both the evidence preserved in the literary traditions of the Hebrew Bible and the current archaeological evidence from both sides of the Jordan. We have also set forth the principal hypotheses or theoretical models that scholars have conventionally employed to
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