Solomon’s Officials and Administration in Kings - Koert van Bekkum
Biblical World
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The Power Vacuum in the 12th Century BC
The Bible tells us they're not there for a long time with at least this lot of territorial control. And so when's that actually going to happen? Because the biblical text itself indicates that it hasn't happened by the time of David and Solomon. The Israelites as far as we can tell and they settle in the highlands, they don't take any of them. We do know that they eventually claim all of the other where's where's. They're eventually before the Assyrians drive out the Northern Kingdom and the Babylonians conquer the Southern Kingdom.
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