From Nomadism to Monarchy: Archaeological and Historical Aspects of Early Israel

Aharoni Ancient appear Arad Aviv BASOR battle Beer-Sheba Beer-Sheba Valley biblical Book of Joshua Canaan Canaanite Canaanite cities central hill country city-states conquest David desert fringe destruction Dothan earlier literature Early Bronze Early Iron Age eastern Ebal Egypt Egyptian eleventh century BCE Eretz-Israel ethnic evidence excavations Finkelstein Gezer Gibeon Giloh Hazor Hebrew Hebron hectares highlands historical Hittite Ibid idem indicate inhabitants inscriptions Iron Age Iron I sites Israel Israelite Israelite Settlement Jerusalem Judah Judean hill country Judean Hills Kempinski Khirbet kingdom Kochavi Lachish land Late Bronze Age located Lower Galilee lowlands Manasseh Masos material culture Mazar Megiddo Middle Bronze Age migration monarchy Na'aman Naḥal narrative Negev nomadic northern Palestine period Philistine population pottery Ramesses Ramesses III reconstruction region Samaria sedentary settled settlement process Shechem Shephelah sherds Shiloh socio-spatial southern story Stratum suggested survey Taanach Tell territory tradition tribes Upper Galilee urban Zertal