Download This PaperThe Emergence of Israel in Syrian-Palestine; the Archaeological Perspective of History and Religion of Israel
American Based Research Journal, Vol. 8 Issue 05, May 2019
6 Pages Posted: 21 May 2020
Date Written: May 1, 2019
Abstract
Historians find it difficult to explain some phenomena that might not be empirically proven by scriptures hence opt to seek answers from other sources such as archaeology. This study sought to examine the emergence of Israel in Syrian Palestine from the archaeological point of view. On one hand, the study analysed the Old Testament writings vis-à-vis the existence of Israel in Syrian-Palestine since the Patriarchal age and on the other hand, consults archaeology for the same reason. This is because an internal examination of the Old Testament writings cannot yield its full results apart from the application of the external evidence supplied by archaeology; nor, can the results of archaeology be profitably assimilated without a painstaking and critical examination of the historical documents in an attempt to ascertain the fact that the land in which modern Jews occupy is the ancestral land given to their forefathers rightfully by God as recorded in the Old Testament writings. The study found out that there is interlink between archaeological findings and Biblical narrative concerning Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The study was qualitative in nature and employed both descriptive and phenomenological approaches.
Keywords: Bible history, Archaeological findings, Hebrew identity, Israel’s Occupation
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