Tribe of Manasseh as Judges. (see the Book of Judges) With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Manasseh joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king. After the death of Saul, all the tribes other than Judah remained loyal to the House of Saul, but after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son and successor to the throne of Israel, the Tribe of Manasseh joined the other northern Israelite tribes in making David, who was then the king of Judah, king of
The Tribe of Witches and that "[a]ny novice historical linguist" could have told the author that his "tribe of witches" was a "phantom". Furthermore, highlighting that "very few pages are free of basic errors", he describes Yeates' thinking as "muddled" and ultimately considered "The Tribe of Witches" to be a "shallow, muddled and thoroughly underwhelming book" of no use to the scholarly study of either the "Dobunni" or "Hwicce". Other peer-reviewed journals to publish reviews included "Oxoniensia" and "Transactions of the Birmingham & Warwickshire Archaeological Society". In a short review published in "British Archaeology", the magazine of the Council for British Archaeology, the landscape