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  • Chapter 12 - The Galilee and the Phoenicians

  • from Part II - The Archaeology of the Tenth Century BCE
  • Avraham Faust, Bar Ilan University, Israel, Zev I. Farber, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem
  • Book:
    The Bible's First Kings
    Published online:
    16 January 2025
    Print publication:
    20 February 2025, pp 252-260

  • Summary

    In the late Iron I, the Galilee was dotted with small farming villages. In the early Iron II, these were all abandoned while at the same time, large, fortified towns such as Hazor were built in the adjacent regions. The two processes were connected, reflecting the Israelite takeover of the region. As the highland polity expanded into the hilly Galilee, the local groups, many of which had a similar background and lifestyle, had to choose whether to affiliate with it or fight against it. Many, especially in more mountainous regions, simply became Israelite “tribes,” whereas settlements that were regarded as non-Israelites (“Canaanites”) were mostly destroyed. Like in other regions, the result was a complete reshuffling in settlement patterns, and the new polity built new centers to control the area. Here, however, the new polity had to contend with another polity, Tyre, with which it wished to remain on friendly terms. Thus, the western part of the Galilee (along with the Galilee coast) was left in Phoenician hands.