La conexión árabe: Una hipótesis sobre el surgimiento sociopolítico de Israel en Palestina

EMANUEL PFOH

Antiguo Oriente. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente

CEHAO-UCA

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2010 vol. 8 p. 135 - 159

1667-9202

Recent scholarship has shown that there is no solid archaeological or epigraphic evidence to deem the narratives about the rise to kingship of David and his son Solomon as reflecting the rise and consolidation of Israel as a Nation-State during the 10th century BCE. It is rather during the 9th century in the Palestinian highlands that we can find the emergence of a socio-political entity named Bīt Ḫumri/ya or Israel in the contemporary archaeological and epigraphic records, but with an ambiguous character as a state. In this paper, it is suggested the possibility that the rise of such a polity and the constitution of an ethnogenesis are notably and directly related to the appearance of the Arabian network of exchanges in the early first millennium BCE in the Near East. Furthermore, from a critical point of view, one may suggest that there is no direct ethnic connection between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the later Jewish cults of Yahweh in Palestine, as evoked in the Old Testament.