Phillip Davies gives Yosi Garfinkle a scholarly

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kick in the nuts!

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/dav368018.shtml

We can quibble about whether the Shephelah is “Judah” rather than the highlands, but that this part of Palestine and this city were part of a political system called “Judah” is quite another supposition. Where is the proof? I suspect Garfinkel is just using a biblical figure to fill the gap. If so, we have just another example of the old “biblical archaeology.”