This week we are exploring the origins/emergence of Israel as a distinct ethnic group/people throughout a period of about two hundred years in the highlands of central Canaan, and the Israelite (and Judahite) stories of origins/emergence that later would become among the first layers of biblical literature. This includes ancestral stories that, as eponyms, helped […]
This week we are exploring the origins/emergence of Israel as a distinct ethnic group/people throughout a period of about two hundred years in the