21 Introduction urbanism, and royal polity began to develop in Judah only in the Yet this presumption aboutsecond half of the 8 th century BCE . 11 the slow development of scribalism in ancient Israel was refuted by A . Demsky ( 2012 : 26 - 60 ; 133 - 168 ) and others who attribute scribal In a later articleschools in Israel as early as the 10 th century BCE . 12 a ) , however, Finkelstein tried to reconstruct an earlier layer in 2013 ( the Book of Samuel regarding David and his outlaw band . He was also ready to accept Saul’s description as an early layer in the Book of Samuel ( 2013 b ) . Yet the whole approach to reconstructing Biblical histor y based mainly on archeology and geography seems to me methodologically presumptuous . The minimalists’ and the semi - minimalists’ views suffered a blow from the 9 th century BCE extra - Biblical royal inscriptions mentioning the house / dynasty of David ) . 13 ( בית דוד , ) ? Ben - Hadad ( or was it Hazael King of Aram, and Mesha, King of Mo...
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