GUEVARA LLAGUNO, MIREN JUNKAL
No
Rev. Biblica
Article
Científica
01/01/2023
001230126400012
The increasingly precise knowledge of the emergence of the political Israelite entities throughout the 9th century BCE, forces us to consider the importance that the political agenda of the Phoenician cities of Tire and Sidon exerted on this process. Different internal and external causes to the very development of these Phoenician cities made it necessary to dynamize strong political entities in the highlands of Palestine to serve their interests in the Levant scenario. Although it is true that, at the beginning of this process, the primary sources are scarce and we are obliged to follow the biblical account, the appearance of Assyria in the Levant propitiated the development of epigraphy and enriched the range of sources of information. The close contact between Phoenicians and Israelites left its trace, moreover, in the cultural manifestations of the northern and southern kingdoms that we can recognize in the texts, the material remains, etc., that the studies of the last years have provided us.
Phoenicia; Tyre; Sidon; Israel; Hiram I; Judah; Assyria; David; Solomon; Ethbaal I; Phoenician Harbours; Omri; Iron Age II