The Sheshonq I campaign and the 8th-century BCE earthquake–more on the archaeology and history of the South in the Iron I-IIa.
Abstract
The article attempts to reconstruct the history of southern Israel (the Beersheba Valley, the Shephelah and the southern Coastal Plain) in the Late Iron I and Iron IIA. It shows that activity in the so-called 'Tel Masos chiefdom' commenced in the Iron I and peaked in the Early Iron IIA-parallel to the copper mining activity at Khirbet en-NalJas. Regarding the early phase of this time-span, the article proposes that the Sheshonq I campaign did not bring about the destruction of the Tel Masos chiefdom; rather, the major phase of activity in the south-in the Early Iron IIAwas a result of Egyptian involvement in the region. Regarding the end of the Iron IIA, the article rejects the notion that the Iron IIA-IIB transition should be affiliated with the earthquake mentioned in Amos 1: 1; it dates this transition to ca. 800 BCE.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Sheshonq I is commonly equated with biblical 'Shishak king of Egypt'.
“Sheshonq I is commonly equated with biblical “Shishak king of Egypt””
From The chronology of Gezer from the end of the late bronze age to iron age II: A meeting point for radiocarbon, archaeology egyptology and the Bible (2023) · cites this paper as [28]
Placing the transition from early to late Iron IIA in the first half of the 9th century BCE fits the Atar Haroa results better.
“Placing this transition in the first half of the 9th century BCE (Fantalkin and Finkelstein 2006:22) seems to fit the Atar Haroa results better.”
From Radiocarbon Results from the Iron IIA Site of Atar Haroa in the Negev Highlands and their Archaeological and Historical Implications (2010) · cites this paper as Fantalkin and Finkelstein 2006:22
Cites
The Egyptian empire in Palestine: A reassessment
Weinstein, J. M. (1981) · Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research · doi:10.2307/1356708 · Cited by 147 · cited 6× · see citing works
“An Unfortified Late Bronze Age Site at Gerar: Survey Finds.”
InfluentialGilboa, A., & Sharon, I. (2003) · Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research · doi:10.2307/1357808 · Cited by 141 · cited 2× · see citing works
“From the pottery perspective, it seems that these contacts were renewed quite early 12 Some contacts between Cyprus and the Levant did continue during the Iron I (Muhly 1999; Gilboa 2005; Gilboa and Sharon 2003: 64-67).”
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
The Architectural Bias in Current Biblical Archaeology.
Ben-Yosef, E. (2019) · Vetus Testamentum · doi:10.1163/15685330-12341370 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Boaretto, E., Finkelstein, I., & Shahack-Gross, R. (2010) · Radiocarbon · doi:10.1017/s0033822200044982 · Cited by 50 · see citing works
Self-citationBen-Yosef, E., Liss, B., Yagel, O. A., Tirosh, O., Najjar, M., & Levy, T. E. (2019) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221967 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
Webster, L. C., Wolff, S. R., Ortiz, S. M., Barbosa, M., Coyle, C., Arbino, G. P., Dee, M. W., Hua, Q., & Jacobsen, G. E. (2023) · PLOS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0293119 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Regev, J., Gadot, Y., Uziel, J., Chalaf, O., Shalev, Y., Roth, H., Shalom, N., Szanton, N., Bocher, E., Pearson, C. L., et al. (2024) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2321024121 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
Kleiman, S., Kleiman, A., & Ben-Yosef, E. (2017) · Tel Aviv · doi:10.1080/03344355.2017.1357313 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Assyrian Chronology and Ideology of Kingship: The Impact on Biblical Historiography and Religion
Derstine, P. (2024) · Religions · doi:10.3390/rel15070804 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
- Authors
- Fantalkin, A., & Finkelstein, I.
- Venue
- Tel Aviv
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 18-42
- ISSN
- 0334-4355 (ISSN-L)
- 2040-4786
- OpenAlex
- W2087805984
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 69.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Tel Aviv (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Keywords
- chiefdoms, copper mining, Egyptian influence, southern Israel, Shephelah, Southern Coastal Plain
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
