claim · claim_shasu_not_israelites
Shasu is an Egyptian external mobility/population label and cannot be equated wholesale with Israelites, Midianites, Edomites, or Yahweh worshippers.
Shasu is an Egyptian external mobility/population label and cannot be equated wholesale with Israelites, Midianites, Edomites, or Yahweh worshippers.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: supported. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
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Contradicting sources
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Other source context
- informs · provides primary evidence
Yhwꜣ of Shasu-Land — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Defines the attestation.
Locator: Egyptian Shasu-land list analysis - informs · critiques interpretation
Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Provides limits.
Locator: southern-origin hypotheses - informs · contextualizes
Pastoralists in Late Bronze Age Palestine: Which Way Did They Go? — David C. Hopkins (1993)Provides social context.
Locator: mobile-population archaeology
Referenced records
- Shasu · entity
- Midian-associated groups · entity
- Yhwꜣ in the land of the Shasu toponymic attestations · entity
- YHWH / Yahweh · entity