Quote:@Minimalist by little I meant besides that fact that the hebrews did arrive in isreal and did influence the region.
Incorrect.
Read Israel Finkelstein's The Bible Unearthed and/or William Dever's "Who Were The Early Israelites."
While they quibble around the edges about some matters both concur that no one "arrived" anywhere. They were already there. The collapse of Late Bronze Age empires which coincided with The Sea People attacks caused various nomadic groups in the eastern hill region of Palestine to settle down to grow their own grain as they had lost their trading partners on the coast because of the Sea People. Dever sees refugees from those attacks fleeing inland and settling down once they were clear of the danger. In any case, the "Hebrew" cultural markers grew slowly from this beginning. They were not imported to the region as a going concern...bible stories notwithstanding.
