Biblical Archaeology Review

Norman K. Gottwald, The Tribes of Yahweh, A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel 1250–1050 B.C.E. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1979), pp. 650–663.

Of course, sampling techniques (see Lewis Binford, “A Consideration of Archaeological Research Design,” American Antiquity 29 [1964], pp. 425–441) and statistical methods enable one to extrapolate from a small sample to the larger population, but they only begin to address the historiographic question of how one generalizes in interpretation from the part to the whole.

Of the other two rulers of the Anakites, one (Ahiman) bears a Semitic name (meaning who is like my brother), and the other (Talmai), a Hurrian name.

See David Cassuto, “Ya-‘a-kov,” Encyclopedia Biblica (in Hebrew), (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1958), vol. III, pp. 716–722.

The origins of this Royal House could have been in the city of Shechem; cf., the strong connections of Jacob to this area in the fragment of the Shechem stories of Jacob, Genesis 33–34.

And see Thutmosis III list in Karnak, No. 102, H.W. Helck, Untertsuchungen zu Manetho, (Berlin, 1956), p. 132. Weill, La Fin du Moyen Empire. p. 189, would like to add here also a place name from the list of Ramses II Y-[‘]-ku-b-r(w), which seems likely. Yohanan Aharoni, The Land of the Bible, A Historical Geography (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979), p. 163, places the name in Upper Galilee, but to my mind it belongs to the following group: the “Land of Gezer.”

Since this process of settlement seems today to be a long one (over approximately 100 years), such contacts in the religious sphere are most probable.

Raymond Weill La Fin du Moyen Empire Égyptien, (Paris, 1918), vol. 1, pp. 188–191.

W. Helck, Die Beziehungen Aegyptens zu Vorderasien im 3. und 2. Jahrt. v Chr. (Wiesbaden, 1962), pp. 103–104.