entity · term_israel
Israel
A source-dependent name that can denote a late-thirteenth-century population, later highland communities, a northern polity, or broader literary identity.
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.
1210 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · defines
Israel in the Merneptah Stela — Michael G. Hasel (1994)Provides earliest secure external context.
Locator: Merneptah Israel analysis - informs · proposes interpretation
First Israel, Core Israel, United (Northern) Israel — Israel Finkelstein (2019)Models later political changes.
Locator: changing Israel formations
Research description
A source-dependent name that can denote a late-thirteenth-century population, later highland communities, a northern polity, or broader literary identity. Website labels and tooltips must display the source date and meaning rather than normalize all periods into one identity.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Modern appropriation sensitive
Evidence frequently used in modern political, nationalist, religious, colonial, antisemitic, supersessionist, or exclusionary arguments.
Why does this record have this property?
Israel is frequently projected across incompatible ancient and modern meanings.
- The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon
provides source criticism · modern framing
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines
Israel in the Merneptah Stela — Michael G. Hasel (1994)Provides earliest secure external context.
Locator: Merneptah Israel analysis - informs · proposes interpretation
First Israel, Core Israel, United (Northern) Israel — Israel Finkelstein (2019)Models later political changes.
Locator: changing Israel formations
Referenced records
- Southern Levant · entity