What Recent Excavations Reveal About the Formation of Ancient Israel

BAF/BASONOVA Zoom Lecture Series

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 | 8 PM EDT
Presenter: James W. Hardin, Mississippi State University

Recent archaeological finds attending the formation of ancient Israel and Judah, especially during the putative times of David and Solomon, have ignited a debate about the history of the ancient Near East.

 New excavations along the Philistine and Judahite frontier such as Khirbet Summeily, and a better understanding of old ones such as Tel el-Hesi, are providing a better understanding of the formative stages of ancient Israel during the Iron Age I/Iron Age II transition (the proposed time of David and Solomon).

 When this information is combined with that from other sites in the larger region, it seems that a process had begun of integrating settlements into larger socio-political and economic networks. Some possible explanations as to the complex settlement processes and causes in the southern Levant are suggested in the presentation, with a particular focus on trade.

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