On this, see Abraham Malamat, “Israelite Conduct of War in the Conquest of Canaan,” in Symposia Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Schools of Oriental Research (1900–1975), ed. Frank M. Cross (Cambridge, MA, 1979), pp. 35–56; B.S.J. Isserlin, “The Israelites’ Conquest of Canaan: A Comparative Review of the Arguments Applicable,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 115 (1983), pp. 85–94; Volkmar Fritz, “Conquest or Settlement? The Early Iron Age in Palestine,” Biblical Archaeologist 50 (1987), pp. 94f.