Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

For your interest, here are the correspondences between the 
archaeology of Shechem and the biblical accounts noted by David Rohl 
("A Test of Time", pp.320-325 and elsewhere). Rohl's dates in [...] 
may be ignored if your prefer as Rohl's arguments do not depend on 
this absolute dating.

Date            Archaeology             Biblical history

MB IIA          Courtyard temple        Jacob's altar outside
[c.1700 BCE]    outside EB walls        Shechem, next to large tree
                                        Gen 33:18-20, 35:4

MB IIB [c.1400] Standing stone          Joshua's stone - Jos.24:26

MB IIB - LB I   Large temple            Temple of Baal-Berith
[13th century?]                         Judges 8:33, 9:4,46

LB I [c.1170]   Temple destroyed,       Destruction by Abimelech
reign of Ahmose city abandoned          Judges 9:45,49

Amarna period   Shechem is in the       Saul rules hill country and
[c.1030-1010]   territory of Lab'ayu    Gilead, Shechem not mentioned

Also in answer to LMB's request, some more data on cities and sons 
sharing names: Genesis 4:17, also possibly some of the "sons" of 
Genesis 10.

Peter Kirk