Conquest Hypothesis
W.F. Albright adopted the biblical
conquest narrative and linked it with available archaeological data. . . .
However, the hardest blow to this hypothesis was the discovery that most of the
cities conquered by the Israelite tribes had no LB strata, which means that
they did not exist at all during the time of the Israelite settlement or else
were insignificant settlements such as Jericho, Ai, Arad, and the Transjordan. (Peter
Dubovský, “Israel and Judah: History and Society,” in The Jerome Biblical
Commentary for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John J. Collins, Gina
Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, and Donal Senior [3d ed.; London: T&T
Clark, 2022], 78-79)
