Bronze Age World

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Type: journal article
Publication: The Biblical Archaeologist, vol. 58, no. 4, 200-213
Peer reviewed: Yes

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entity Early Israelites
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · proposes interpretation · pp. 200-213
Provides an alternative archaeological synthesis.
date assertion Early Israelites — date assertion
informs · proposes interpretation · pp. 200-213
Provides an alternative archaeological synthesis.
event Expansion of small settlements in the central highlands
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes interpretation · archaeological Israel synthesis
Provides an alternative interpretation.
claim The Iron I highland settlement expansion is not an ethnic census and does not by itself identify every new site as Israelite.
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · proposes interpretation · alternative synthesis
Shows debate.
causal hypothesis Multicausal Iron I highland settlement model
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes interpretation · archaeological Israel model
Provides another weighting.
ranked model Highland settlement and Israelite ethnogenesis
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes interpretation · alternative synthesis
Alternative.
date assertion Expansion of small settlements in the central highlands — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes interpretation · archaeological Israel synthesis
Provides an alternative interpretation.
claim The Merneptah attestation proves the name Israel by the late thirteenth century but does not by itself explain Israelite ethnogenesis.
Evidence confidence: near certain
informs · proposes interpretation · alternative ethnogenesis model
Shows debate.
claim Israelite and Judahite identities formed through multistage processes involving local continuity, political consolidation, regional differentiation, and later pan-Israelite trad…
Disputed interpretationConfidence in this assessment: moderateConfidence in the stated assessment
informs · proposes interpretation · stronger early Israelite archaeological identification
Represents a different weighting.