Who Were the Early Israelites, and Where Did They Come From?

Out of the uncertainty of the patriarchal period, a somewhat clearer picture emerges in “Who Were the Early Israelites, and Where Did They Come From?” Here Professor Dever presents the earliest definitive cultural and inscriptional evidence of a new people called “Israel” living in the Holy Land. If archaeology shows that they were there, can it also find traces of fact in the Exodus story and the Biblical narratives about the sojourn in the desert followed by the Canaanite conquest? This was part of the How Archaeology Illuminates the Bible DVD.