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Rising from the Ashes: Israel and the Dawn of the Iron Age

By Eric H. Cline

In the wake of the Late Bronze Age collapse, change swept over the eastern Mediterranean world. In the southern Levant, the once-formidable Canaanite city-states yielded to the rise of new kingdoms, including biblical Israel. Explore this historic transformation and the ways in which various peoples adapted to the shifting realities of a changed world.

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Footnotes

1. Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.—The Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization,” BAR, Summer 2022.

2. Avraham Faust, “How Did Israel Become a People?” BAR, November/December 2009; Anson Rainey, “Inside, Outside: Where Did the Israelites Come From?,” BAR, November/December 2008; Adam Zertal, “Israel Enters Canaan—Following the Pottery Trail,” BAR, September/October 1991; Israel Finkelstein, “Searching for Israelite Origins,” BAR, September/October 1988.

Endnotes

1. Portions of this essay are adapted from my book, After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2024), and are used here by permission.