entity · trad_tribal_allotments
Tribal allotment geography
Also known as: Twelve-tribe allotments
Biblical territorial descriptions assigning land to tribes.
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–400 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · contextualizes
The Pentateuch: Archaeology and History — Israel Finkelstein (2021)Supports treating allotments first as literary composition.
Locator: archaeology and literary geography - informs · provides source criticism
The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon — Rachel Hallote (2020)Explains reception risks.
Locator: modern map-making and biblical geography context
Research description
Biblical territorial descriptions assigning land to tribes. The date range describes proposed composition/redaction activity, not the narrative setting.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Literary geography
A spatial description first attested in a literary tradition rather than a securely dated political survey.
Why does this record have this property?
The allotments are textual geographies until independently supported for a specific period.
- The Pentateuch: Archaeology and History
provides source criticism · literary geography - The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon
provides source criticism · modern mapping history
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
The Pentateuch: Archaeology and History — Israel Finkelstein (2021)Supports treating allotments first as literary composition.
Locator: archaeology and literary geography - informs · provides source criticism
The Southern Levant and the Ancient Near Eastern Canon — Rachel Hallote (2020)Explains reception risks.
Locator: modern map-making and biblical geography context
Referenced records
- Southern Levant · entity