Daily life in ancient Israel

According to author Robert D. Miller, archaeological surveys and excavations of the Central Hill country have provided a clear picture of daily life in ancient Israel in the days of Bible judges and the early Israeli settlers of Canaan.

How was the life of the Israeli tribes in the time of Bible judges, archaeologists of that period say the Iron Age I (1200-1000 BC)?

Evidence for Canaan’s early Israeli settlers has emerged from two sources: archaeological survey and excavation. Most areas of the central hills, where most of the Canaan settlers established their villages, were surveyed in the 1980s and 1990s.

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The survey provided very useful information about daily life in ancient Israel during the Bible judges, including the management and size of tribal villages and even the nature of the early Israeli economic and political system. Excavation figures, the recent excavation (for example) and the long past (such as Baithal), provide evidence of daily life in ancient Israel, including society’s wealth, war and housing.

With this evidence, the following portraits of daily life emerge in ancient Israel during the time of Bible judges.

The Israeli villages built by Canaan settlers were on the hills. For example, they were quite small, possibly 400 of them. The towns were mostly unwanted, though they were part of major political units or regional chiefdoms who provided security. In a given region, the Israeli villages were articles in the area of ​​the area, some of which, such as Shechham, had a very large and controlled coffee.

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At the time of Bible judges, Israeli lives in nuclear households, often living with their relatives in the houses around the joint courtyard. The houses were made of Midbrick with a stone base and another wooden story. The housing residence includes three or four rooms, often on the roof or in the roof lids. One of the first floor rooms was probably a courtyard for domestic animals, mostly sheep and goats.

At that time, at that time, the hills were developed, which was covered with a thick bush of pine, oak and Terbanth trees. And the sheep’s liften was often very stones, so the upbringing of animals was never at the forefront of the economy. Instead, the early Israeli settlers of Canaan burn some of the brush, roofing the roofs of the hills within an hour of hiking in the village, and mainly wheat, grain grain. Other low crops included lentils, grabbenzo beans, joe and millet. They also had gardens on these roofs.

Members of the BAS LibraryRead more about daily life in ancient Israel in the time of Bible judges in Robert D. “Israeli life in front of kings,” Bible archeology reviewsMarch/April 2013.

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This daily feature of Bible history was originally published in March 2013.

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