How the Ten Tribes of Israel Were Lost

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 06:53:50 | Updated at 2024-11-24 04:47:08 4 days ago

How the Ten Tribes of Israel Were Lost
Biblical Archaeology Review ^ | Winter 2024 | William G. Dever

Posted on 11/18/2024 10:34:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv

The final demise of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, at the hands of the powerful Assyrian Empire in 720 BCE, receives only a few terse passages in the Book of 2 Kings:Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria; for three years he besieged it. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria; he carried the Israelites away to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes...From at least the ninth century BCE, the Northern Kingdom of Israel had been more powerful and dominant than the small and relatively isolated Southern Kingdom of Judah. It was larger, more prosperous, and more international in character... Already at the Battle of Qarqar, in 853 BCE, King Ahab, the son and successor to Omri, the eponymous founder of the Northern Kingdom's leading dynasty, had collaborated with the kings of several nearby kingdoms to fight off the Assyrian advance. In fact, the Assyrian sources credit Ahab with bringing 2,000 chariots and 10,000 soldiers to the fight, well more than any other king could muster...

The Hebrew Bible describes captives taken away to Assyria, but it does not give any numbers. The Assyrian annals, however, specify that 27,290 captives were deported from Samaria. This refers to the region of Samaria and not just the capital, which could scarcely have had a population of more than a thousand...

At Hazor, archaeologist Yigael Yadin, who excavated much of the site in the 1950s and 1960s, described how the site's eighth-century levels ended in "final, complete" conflagration, which he identified with a layer of rubble and ash nearly 3 feet thick.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: assyrianempire; catastrophism; gezer; godsgravesglyphs; hazor; israel; losttribes; williamdever; williamgdever

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1 posted on 11/18/2024 10:34:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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2 posted on 11/18/2024 10:35:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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3 posted on 11/18/2024 10:36:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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Projecting Prestige: Egyptian Statues from Canaanite Hazor | Igor Kreimerman | Winter 2024Some two dozen fragments of ancient Egyptian statues have turned up in the excavations of the Canaanite city of Hazor in the Upper Galilee. Intriguingly, these statues were destroyed already in antiquity, and most were found in archaeological contexts dating centuries after the pieces were first made. Explore how, when, and why these high-end artifacts ended up at Late Bronze Age Hazor.

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4 posted on 11/18/2024 10:40:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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5 posted on 11/18/2024 10:42:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SunkenCiv

“Following the destruction of all the key sites in the north and the deportation of thousands, the Assyrians resettled the area with displaced peoples whom they had conquered and deported from other regions of the Near East, including Syria and the Transjordan. The practice shredded the social and cultural fabric of the region so that it could never recover, while providing some revenue from a foreign population now rendered homeless. “

Odd, sure sounds like the unfettered illegal immigration efforts by world governments.
Gotta wonder about that.

6 posted on 11/18/2024 10:43:29 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )

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