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Notes on video lecture:
The Rise of the Iron Age Kingdoms
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on June 7, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Rehoboam, complex, lowlands, Philistines, Jacob, warlords, Rachel, urban, disappeared, judges, Pentateuch, United, different, continuity, produced, writing, Levant, Bronze, Canaan, king, poorer, military, rural, composite, construe, history, periodization, Ishbaal, battles, enemies, Samuel, sophisticated, ceramic, archeological, state, armies
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most Biblical archeologists and historians of ancient Israel no longer work with the                            of the Biblical narrative
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Biblical narrative
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the patriarchs
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Abraham, Isaac,           
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the matriarchs
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Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and             
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exodus from Egypt
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conquest of             
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have instead recognized that the Biblical narrative is a                    piece
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was composed over time from sources that reflect many                    understandings of Israel's history
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look at a wide range of evidence
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the important is the                            record
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many sites throughout the southern             
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there is a dichotomy between the                  and the highlands
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corresponds to significant changes at the end of the late              age throughout the Iron Age (e.g. 1000 BC - 600 BC range)
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from                pottery remains
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can identify a                      from Iron Age I (1200-1000 BC) to Iron Age II (1000 BC - 586 BC, or the conquest of Judah)
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lack of decorations
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absence of imported wares
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the Iron Age begins as a              period than the earlier Bronze Age
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during the early Iron Age, the culture of the lowlands was much more                            than the highlands
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but the poorer populations from the highland sites grew into a sophisticated society with formidable              that conquered many territories
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period of the              and united monarchy
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few scholars think anymore in terms of the patriarchs, matriarchs, exodus, and conquest
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but they do think in terms of
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period of the judges
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from Book of Judges
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period of the              Monarchy
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from Books of             
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the Book of Judges, Samuel, and Kings
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written by authors that are living at a time that is closer to the time about which they               
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describe a reality that is more                and realistic
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unlike the legends in the                      and the Book of Joshua
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United Monarchy (1050-930 BC)
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the United Monarchy was formed when there was a large popular expression in favor of introducing a          to rule over the previously decentralized Israelite tribal confederacy
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rulers were: Saul,               , David, and Solomon
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on the succession of Solomon's son,                 , in 930 BC the biblical account reports that the country split into two kingdoms
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Kingdom of Israel (north)
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Kingdom of Judah (south)
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if we want an accurate understanding of the                of Israel
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we need to think critically about the way the authors of the Book of Judges                  the period of the Judges that follows the age of Joshua and which precedes the period of the United Monarchy
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a more responsible way to approach Israel's history is to look for signs of            formation and centralization
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we can see a continuity from Iron Age I (1200-1000 BC) to Iron Age II (1000 BC - 586 BC, or the conquest of Judah)
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we see extreme changes in            settlements in the same region
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almost all of the small settlements                        at the end of Iron Age I
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Iron Age II was when we start to witness the rise of centralized states in the highlands
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most of the new rural settlements did not continue from the earlier period of Iron Age I
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suggests that a                  threat was prompting the settlements in the countryside to seek refuge in larger, fortified places
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perhaps by the                        along the coast
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this was supported by the European historical model that states are caused by common               
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and from the Biblical accounts from the Book of Samuel, which depicts Israel's first king Saul in                with the Philistines
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it might be more accurate to think also in terms of a wide variety of                  in the hill country fighting amongst themselves
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in any case, by the time this process of ran its course, it had                  the kingdoms of Israel and Judah
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           centers that grew up in the Iron Age and reached their peak in the 8th century and for Judah in the south in the 7th century
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Dan
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Hazor
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Megiddo
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Jokneam
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Shikmona
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Dor
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Samaria
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Shechem
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Tirzah
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Jerusalem
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Gezer
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Beth Shemesh
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Lachish
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Beersheba

Spelling Corrections:

absense ⇒ absence
formidible ⇒ formidable
Pentetuch ⇒ Pentateuch
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Canaan as Outback between Mesopotamia and Egypt Civilization Centers
The Three Centers of Early Jewish History
The Amarna Letters and Egypt's Presence in Canaan During the New Kingdom
The End of Egyptian Imperial Control
Maps of Historical Biblical Regions
Interview with Bill Deaver
Israel, Judah, and the Campaign of Shishak
The Omride Dynasty
725 BC: The Fall of Israel to Assyria
The Kingdom of Judah and Sennacherib
The Fall of Judah
The History of Israel According to Genesis and Exodus
Archaeological Theories on the History of Israel
The Rise of the Iron Age Kingdoms
Bronze Age vs. Iron Age Material Culture
History of the Central Highland States
Judah After the Babylonian Conquest
Factors Leading to the Depopulation Of Israel
The Elephantine Papyri
Judahite Communities in Babylon
Ezra-Nehemiah and Haggai on Temple Rebuilding
The Biblical Project
From the Bible to the Sumerian King List
Genesis Chapter 26: Isaac, Abimelek and Rebekah
The Biblical Authors' Portrayal of Women and Heroism
The Bible's Treatment of Heroic Death
Portrayal of Death in the Bible