entity · people_midian_associated_groups
Midian-associated groups
Also known as: Midianites, Midian-associated mobile networks
Groups associated in later sources and scholarship with northwestern Arabia, southern Transjordan, and Sinai; evidence is geographically and chronologically uneven.
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.
1300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · contextualizes
Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Reviews proposals without equating Midian directly with Shasu or early Israel.
Locator: Midianite hypothesis chapter and southern evidence - informs · contextualizes
The Southern Steppe of the Levant ca. 1050-750 BCE: A Framework for a Territorial History — Israel Finkelstein (2014)Provides mobility and route context.
Locator: southern steppe framework
Research description
Groups associated in later sources and scholarship with northwestern Arabia, southern Transjordan, and Sinai; evidence is geographically and chronologically uneven. The record preserves the distinction between source label, archaeological pattern, political formation, and later identity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Reviews proposals without equating Midian directly with Shasu or early Israel.
Locator: Midianite hypothesis chapter and southern evidence - informs · contextualizes
The Southern Steppe of the Levant ca. 1050-750 BCE: A Framework for a Territorial History — Israel Finkelstein (2014)Provides mobility and route context.
Locator: southern steppe framework
Referenced records
- Negev and Arabah · entity