event · evt_united_monarchy_tradition_composition
Formation and redaction of United Monarchy traditions
Samuel-Kings presents David and Solomon ruling a united kingdom with Jerusalem, dynasty, temple, administration, warfare, and wealth.
What is the evidence?
observation
Samuel-Kings presents David and Solomon ruling a united kingdom with Jerusalem, dynasty, temple, administration, warfare, and wealth.proposed causes
Later textual formation and some dynastic memory are plausible; scale, chronology, and early source layers remain debated.
Inspect the sources →Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
750 BCE–500 BCE
Precision: broad compositional range
Chronology model: historical books redaction models
moderateLater textual formation and some dynastic memory are plausible; scale, chronology, and early source layers remain debated.
- informs · contextualizes
The United Monarchy: State of the Question — Zachary Thomas (2016)Provides model range.
Locator: state of question - informs · critiques interpretation
The Two Houses of Israel: State Formation and the Origins of Pan-Israelite Identity — Omer Sergi (2023)Provides later ideological context.
Locator: pan-Israelite identity model - informs · provides primary evidence
Tel Dan Stela: New Light on Aramaic and Jehu's Revolt — William M. Schniedewind (1996)Provides later dynastic evidence.
Locator: House of David interpretation
Interpretation and caveats
A later historiographic construction drawing on dynastic memory, royal traditions, place knowledge, and ideology; historical scale must be tested independently.
Event context
Classification
Event type: literary composition and redaction
Evidence layer: literary
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Jerusalem, Jerusalem and southern highlands, Central highlands, Jerusalem, Jerusalem and southern highlands, Central highlands
Why it matters to the timeline
The United Monarchy is a required central uncertainty and must be separated from tenth-century archaeology.
Alternative interpretations
- Broadly accurate memory of a large tenth-century state.
- Memory of a smaller Jerusalem-centred polity expanded by later writers.
- Primarily later pan-Israelite and Judahite ideological synthesis.
Research notes
- Provides model range. Role: contextualizes. Locator: state of question.
- Provides later ideological context. Role: critiques interpretation. Locator: pan-Israelite identity model.
- Provides later dynastic evidence. Role: provides primary evidence. Locator: House of David interpretation.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
The United Monarchy: State of the Question — Zachary Thomas (2016)Provides model range.
Locator: state of question - informs · critiques interpretation
The Two Houses of Israel: State Formation and the Origins of Pan-Israelite Identity — Omer Sergi (2023)Provides later ideological context.
Locator: pan-Israelite identity model - informs · provides primary evidence
Tel Dan Stela: New Light on Aramaic and Jehu's Revolt — William M. Schniedewind (1996)Provides later dynastic evidence.
Locator: House of David interpretation
Referenced records
- Jerusalem and southern highlands · entity
- Central highlands · entity
- Jerusalem · entity