Bronze Age World

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Type: journal review article
Publication: Biblical Theology Bulletin, vol. 46, no. 2, 85-99
Peer reviewed: Yes

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myth interpretation United Monarchy as remembered golden age and pan-Israelite political ideal
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state of question
Preserves historical alternatives.
date assertion Kingdom of Judah — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · state of the question
Summarizes competing chronologies and scale models.
entity United Monarchy tradition
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · entire review
Summarizes archaeological and historical positions.
entity David traditions
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · David and monarchy debate
Separates later dynasty evidence from narrative scale.
date assertion David traditions — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · David and monarchy debate
Separates later dynasty evidence from narrative scale.
entity Solomon traditions
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · Solomon and tenth-century evidence review
Summarizes competing scale and chronology models.
date assertion Solomon traditions — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Solomon and tenth-century evidence review
Summarizes competing scale and chronology models.
event Gradual development of the Judahite highland polity
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state-of-question review
Documents model range.
event Early Iron Age development of Jerusalem
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state of the question
Summarizes the debate.
event Formation and redaction of United Monarchy traditions
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state of question
Provides model range.
property assignment United Monarchy tradition — has property — Literary tradition, not contemporary event report
Evidence confidence: near certain
informs · contextualizes · evidence review
Supports assignment.
property assignment Kingdom of Judah — has property — Polity extent uncertain
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · contextualizes · scale debate
Supports assignment.
causal hypothesis Asymmetric formation of Israel and Judah
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · competing models
Counterpositions.
claim Attribution of monumental gates, palaces, and administrative systems to Solomon depends on contested ceramic and radiocarbon chronologies.
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · chronology debate
Summarizes alternatives.
claim Absence of one expected artifact or text is not, by itself, sufficient proof that a complex biblical tradition is wholly true or wholly false.
Evidence confidence: near certain
informs · contextualizes · evidential debate
Shows multidimensional testing.
entity Kingdom of Judah
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state of the question
Summarizes competing chronologies and scale models.
ranked model United Monarchy scale and chronology
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state of question
Model range.
ranked model Tenth-century Jerusalem
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · review
Balanced framing.
relationship United Monarchy tradition — later historiography about — Kingdom of Israel
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · debate review
Supports relation.
date assertion Gradual development of the Judahite highland polity — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state-of-question review
Documents model range.
date assertion Early Iron Age development of Jerusalem — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state of the question
Summarizes the debate.
date assertion Formation and redaction of United Monarchy traditions — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · state of question
Provides model range.
date assertion United Monarchy tradition — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · chronology and model review
Provides the range.
date assertion Gradual development of the Judahite highland polity — date assertion
Evidence confidence: low
informs · contextualizes · maximal/intermediate models
Provides debate context.
claim The United Monarchy debate is not a binary choice between a vast empire exactly as narrated and no historical Davidic or Jerusalem-centred polity.
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · state of question
Shows multidimensional debate.
claim No securely identified contemporary inscription from Solomon's putative reign directly names Solomon.
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · evidence review
Documents the evidential structure.
claim Jerusalem was occupied in the tenth century BCE, but its population, monumental scale, administrative capacity, and control over distant regions remain contested.
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · debate review
Shows range.
claim Evidence for David combines later biblical traditions and a probable ninth-century dynastic reference rather than a contemporary royal archive.
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · David evidence review
Separates evidence types.
myth interpretation David and Goliath as heroic borderland memory
Evidence confidence: low
informs · provides source criticism · Davidic tradition and evidence
Constrains historicity.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: moderate
supports · contextualizes · state of question
Preserves historical alternatives.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: low
supports · provides source criticism · Davidic tradition and evidence
Constrains historicity.