Israelite Ethnicity in Iron I: Archaeology Preserves What Is Remembered and What Is Forgotten in Israel's History

E. Bloch-Smith

DOI:10.2307/3268384

Corpus ID: 160020536

Israelite Ethnicity in Iron I: Archaeology Preserves What Is Remembered and What Is Forgotten in Israel's History

@article{BlochSmith2003IsraeliteEI,
  title={Israelite Ethnicity in Iron I: Archaeology Preserves What Is Remembered and What Is Forgotten in Israel's History},
  author={E. Bloch-Smith},
  journal={Journal of Biblical Literature},
  year={2003},
  volume={122},
  pages={401}
}

E. Bloch-Smith

Published 2003

History

Journal of Biblical Literature

Earliest Israel remains terra incognita, literally and from the ground down. The Merneptah Stela Stanza VIII proclaiming Egyptian suzerainty in the southern Levant documents Israel as a noteworthy foreign enemy by the end of the thirteenth century B.C.E.1 Except for this mention, neither contemporary epigraphic nor archaeological evidence explicitly points to a latethirteenth-century B.C.E. "Israel." However, conservatively dated biblical and archaeological evidence has been invoked to attest… CONTINUE READING

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