Saturday, March 26, 2022

Peter Dubovský on W.F. Albright and the Conquest Hypothesis

  

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)