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The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate to what extent historians still hold to the traditional Iron Age IIA Israelite archaeological consensus as evidenced by their acceptance of established interpretations based upon archaeological data. Recent histories of the Unit…

The purpose of this dissertation is to consider a decentralized model, as opposed to the traditional centralized model, to explain the economic organization of the Late Bronze Age. The goals of this study are threefold: (1) to examine the internal economic organization of southe…