Late Bronze Age |

You’ve probably answered this b4, but who was the Pharaoh of and what date do you think was the Exodus? I like the Amarna period and the one God people all got exiled to Canaan … but so many theories.

Note Before I Answer: This is not a political response, nor is it a religious one. Short Answer: According to my readings of the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near Eastern myths, contemporary archaeological...

Category: Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Ancient Near East, Archaeology, Biblical History and Historiography, Historiography, History of Religions, Late Bronze Age, Questions from the Audience, Reading List

The sea peoples of the Bronze Age Collapse™ sound like something Buzzfeed would write. Do we actually have no clue where they come from or is it one of these over-hyped non-mysteries like the crystal skulls ?

Just fyi, this is not intended to be one of my hardcore scholarly posts, and it has been quite a few years since I’ve looked deeply into these issues. This response...

Category: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Near East, Archaeology, Historiography, Immigration History, Late Bronze Age, Questions from the Audience

whats the accepted timeline for biblical events such as exodus? who was the pharoah? were the Jews the Habiru or the Hyksos?

Some archaeologists, and myself, hold to the theory that Exodus is actually a folk memory of the Bronze Age era Egyptian imperial hegemony over the southern Levant. The people archaeologists can...

Category: Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Ancient Near East, Archaeology, Biblical History and Historiography, Historiography, History of Religions, Jewish History, Late Bronze Age