From this loose association a more structured political union could develop. Gottwald held that Israel emerged from within the population of Canaan and not by invasion from outside of it.
Gottwald, The Shechemites were among those who declined the adoption of the new faith Gottwald, However, archaeology has demonstrated that during the period BC there was a standing stone inside the temple precinct in Shechem.
Further, Gottwald ignores the reference to the temple of El-berith in Judges It is far more likely that the name indicates the syncretistic worship that Israel had descended to cf. Judges rather than the existence of a separate Canaanite enclave Campbell, Anderson, R. Bromiley, gen. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia , revised, Vol. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. Archer, Gleason L. The Encyclopedia of Biblical Difficulties. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. Campbell, Edward F. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisebrauns.
Chambers, Henry E. Hallo, James C. Moyer, Leo G. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns: Gottwald, Norman K. London: SCM Press. Hamilton, Victor P. Longenecker, Richard N. Gaebelein, Gen. Moorey, Roger A Century of Biblical Archaeology. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press. Nicholson, Ernest W. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Stott, J. Leicester: IVP. Thompson, J.
Dating of the Samaritan Temple on Mt. Gerizim Bible History Daily This article from Yitzhak Magen gives his reasoning for the date he gives to the temple.
Additional resources are also mentioned. Skip to content. Carmel Mt. The Sites Galilee and the North. Samaria and the Center. Ai — Et-Tell Ai — Kh. Judah and the Dead Sea. Negev and the Wilderness. Eastern Turkey. Western Turkey. Greek Islands. Cos Patmos Rhodes Samos Samothrace. Later Joseph was buried there Josh Shechem in Israel's History.
When the land of Canaan was conquered and divided among the Israelites, Shechem was allotted to Ephraim, and finally assigned to the Levites as a city of refuge. It was here at Shechem that Joshua gave his final words before his death Josh This was of course the place where the blessings and curses were uttered from Mount Gerizim Blessings , and Mount Ebal Curses Josh Later the judge Gideon's son Abimelech convinced the Shechemites to revolt and elect him as king Judges Later he destroyed the city and sowed it with salt.
The Old Testament story of the Israelites first began to be written down during the 10th century B. But the history of the Israelites in the Holy Land began hundreds of years earlier, and the first scribes relied upon oral traditions that had passed down from generation to generation.
The tradition of a sacred area, with an altar and a sacred oak, in the city of Shochem begins in Genesis and reappears from time to time in the Old Testament down to the book of Judges.
In Genesis 12, the Lord commands Abraham to go into the land of Canaan "unto the place of Shochem, unto the oak of Moreh" sacred oak. There, the Lord appears and promises the land to the descendents of Abraham, and Abraham then builds an altar unto the Lord. Deuteronomy 37 relates the farewell of Moses to his people, who are preparing to leave for the land in Jordan promised them by the Lord. Moses commands the people, when they arrive there, to build an altar to the Lord on Mount Ebal, which flanks Shechem, and also to erect on the site plastered stones inscribed with the laws of the covenant.
In the last chapter of the book of Joshua, the leader of the people, now very old, calls all the tribes of Israel to Shochem to renew their covenant with the Lord. Joshua sets beneath the sacred oak a great stone the sacred Pillar to serve as a witness of the covenant, "a witness against you, lest you deny your God.
The sacred oak and pillar reappear in Judges 9, which reports the revolution touched off by Abimelech when he established himself as Israel's first king: "And all the men of Shochem assembled themselves together The Bible does not say when any of these events in the tradition occurred. But the excavations at Shochem provide a concrete background to the story with approximate dates.
These are derived from such evidence as changes that occur in the styles of pottery as the digging goes deeper and deeper.
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