Biblical Archaeology Review

Archives Royales de Mari, I, No 5, lines 4–9. Mari is located on the Middle Euphrates, 16 miles north of the Syria-Iraq border.

Joshua 2:15ff.; Josephus, Antiquities V, 1, 2, elaborates on the intelligence gathered.

See Abraham Malamat, “The Danite Migration and the Pan-Israelite Exodus-Conquest A Biblical Narrative Pattern,” Biblica 51 (1970), pp. 1–16.

See “Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable?” BAR 08:02.

Others, however, credited the ancient Israelites with outstanding military skills. In particular, among those who assess the Israelites’ military skill very highly is Professor Yigael Yadin in his thorough book The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands,1963.

Mycenean pottery is an easily recognized type which originated in mainland Greece and was found all over the Aegean, as well as in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean coasts. It is subdivided into Mycenean I, II and III. Mycenean I and II are characteristic of 16th and 15th-century B.C. sites.

that is, not historical, but intended to explain or justify a later historical situation.