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Archaeology Confirms Book Of Genesis On Israel’s Arch-Nemesis, The Edomites

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American, Israeli, and Jordanian archaeologists are working together in the Aravah Valley, a region that spans the southern deserts of Israel and Jordan, once the heartland of the Edomite nation. The team of archaeologists has new research that claims the biblical kingdom of Edom mentioned in the book of Genesis was much older than previously thought.

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“The accepted paradigm in archaeology that nomads at the time could not create anything politically significant is incorrect,” he says. “What we see in the Aravah is not what we would expect from a society that is mainly nomadic and doesn’t have a stone palace: probably they had a tent palace, but they still created a strong, centralized political body.”

The idea of a new paradigm in looking at the formation of states in the Levant has broader implications for the study of the rise of ancient Israel, notes Ben-Yosef.

The early political entities that the Israelites formed in the hills of Judea and Samaria were also likely created by the uniting of nomadic tribes that only subsequently adopted a sedentary lifestyle – which may explain why it is so hard for archaeologists to uncover solid evidence from the first days of the Israelite kingdom, Ben-Yosef posits.

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Source: Archaeology Confirms Book Of Genesis On Israel’s Arch-Nemesis, The Edomites | Haaretz

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