Quote:Wow, that's a new unproven hypothesis.
Only because you waste your time reading books that tell you what you want to hear.
Try William Dever's "Who Were The Early Israelites" or Israel Finkelstein's "The Bible Unearthed."
You could start here...if you dare.
http://www.worldagesarchive.com/Referenc...ers%29.htm
Quote:In the last quarter century or so, archaeologists have seen one settled assumption after another concerning who the ancient Israelites were and where they came from proved false. Rather than a band of invaders who fought their way into the Holy Land, the Israelites are now thought to have been an 'indigenous culture that developed west of the Jordan River around 1200 B.C. Abraham, Isaac, and the other patriarchs appear to have been spliced together out of various pieces of local lore.