gfsomsel AT juno.com wrote:But where did the IA I date come from? The dating for Moses which George called "absurd" was ca. 1450-1400. No one would identify that date (or the end of it, for the Conquest) with IA I. On the orthodox chronology 1400 would be somewhere in the LB, but other chronologies e.g. that of John Bimson identify a Conquest at about this date with the widespread destruction, including of Jericho, at the end of MB IIB.
...It is a moot point if there even was an Exodus as depicted in the
Pentateuch. The housing styles and the pottery reflect an unbroken
sequence which would tend to indicate that there was no influx of a
foreign element into the land. It would seem that Israel was an
indigenous people of the country. ..."
This point, the absence of new pottery assemblies in IA I has been mentioned
often as proof of lack of outside newcomers in the highlands . However
pottery resembling the one in the highlands of Cis-Jordan was also found
in Moab.
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