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Mendenhall Disavows Paternity

Says he didn’t father Gottwald’s Marxist theory

By Bernhard W. Anderson

Israel emerged as a people just before the period of the Judges, at the end of what archaeologists call the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 B.C.) and the beginning of Iron Age I (1200–1000 B.C.)—the time when the Israelite tribes settled in the land of Canaan. Scholars have explained Israel’s emergence in Canaan according to three different views.1 According to one view, this period should be called the time of the Settlement in Canaan; this settlement took place over several generations and was not completed until the time of David (c. 1000 B.C.). Initially, there was no military assault on […]

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Footnotes

1.

(Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 1979)

2.

“Ancient Israel’s Hyphenated History,” in Palestine in Transition, eds., David Noel Freedman and David F. Graf (Sheffield, England: Almond Press/American Schools of Oriental Research, 1983).

Endnotes

1.

The following summary is adapted from chapter 4 of my book, Understanding the Old Testament, 4th ed. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1986).

2.

George E. Mendenhall, “The Hebrew Conquest of Palestine,” Biblical Archaeologist 25 (1962), pp. 66–87; reprinted with slight revisions in The Biblical Archaeologist Reader 3, ed. Edward F. Campbell and David Noel Freeman (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1970), pp. 100–120.

3.

J. Maxwell Miller, Israelite and Judean History, Old Testament Library Series (London: SCM and Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977), p 279.