Cheerful Charlie

Except that the cultural backround of the early Israelites as found in the hill top settlements is Canannite. Language is not much different, pottery is typically Canaanite with a few minor details changing over time, basic farming and herding techniques are little different from Canaanites with adaptions to dry farming.

Israelites are in fact, typical Canaanites. And this has been recognized for decades now.
The few typical Israelite changes such as 4 room houses is not remarkably different. And most certainly is not typically Egyptian.

Cheerful Charlie

Duvduv

How do Canaanites behave different from Israelites, and what do similar practices of farming have to do with the origins of the Jews? Chinese people drive cars and so do Ashkenazi Jews. Does that mean that Ashkenazi Jews originated from the Chinese?
Did the Canaanites let the land life fallow every seven years?
Come to think of it, did the Canaanites speak Yiddish too?

outhouse

And that is factual. Which seems to have slipped someones mind alltogether.


And not once has he tried to work from these facts foward, in any way shape or form. We only get biased denial.

J-D

The chain of reasoning goes like this.

If the established population of an area were largely or wholly displaced forcibly by the arrival of a different population from outside the area (which is what the Biblical stories describe as happening), and if there is a substantial archaeological record from the relevant time and place (which in this case there is), then there should be significant discontinuities in the archaeological record reflecting the displacement of one population by another.

However, the relevant archaeological record does not show discontinuities on the scale to be expected from a wholesale population displacement and replacement: so the reasonable conclusion is that there wasn't one.

Of course, that only tells us something that didn't happen, not what did happen.Of course not. Nobody spoke Yiddish in Biblical times. Nobody spoke Yiddish before the tenth century at the earliest.