In this issue of BAR, two renowned Israeli scholars, Yigael Yadin and Abraham Malamat, bring their formidable talents to bear on a much-debated Biblical subject—the Israelite takeover of Canaan. “Is the Biblical Account of the Israelite Conquest of Canaan Historically Reliable?” by Yadin and “How Inferior Israelite Forces Conquered Fortified Canaanite Cities” by Malamat present various theories of peaceful infiltration, military conquest and social revolution. BAR readers can examine a range of archaeological evidence to support these respective theories—evidence from spectacular Egyptian reliefs, to cuneiform tablets, to simple storage jars. Yigael Yadin is one of the world’s pre-eminent archaeologists […]
