ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Tel Hazor, Israelites, Merneptah Stele
14 Aug 2020
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Merneptah stele (1207 b. c. : canaan is captive with all woe, israel is wasted, bare of seed, all who roamed have been subdued by the king of the upper and lower egypt . You shall no longer be called jacob, but israel, for you have striven with god and with humans, and have prevailed. Name for a coalition of resistance against egyptian rule. An israel exists no later than 1250 bc in canaan under egyptian rule. Experiences under egyptian rule most likely inform cultural memories of resistance to. Therefore we many begin looking in canaan for groups (e. g. , tribes) and individuals who identified with israel from 1250 b. c. on (i. e. , during the early iron age 1200-1000. Theological mobilization and entrance into the land (1:1-5:12) Second phase: hazor and the far north. Joshua presents a narrative of unified conquest under the command of a single figure that occurs within the life of a single generation.
