In the Bible, who was the first King of Israel?
Historicity of the Bible the biblical patriarchs are fictional, and the patriarchs mere legendary eponyms to describe later historical realities. Further, biblical minimalists hold that the twelve tribes of Israel were a later construction, the stories of King David and King Saul were modeled upon later Irano-Hellenistic examples, and that there is no archaeological evidence that the united Kingdom of Israel, which the Bible says that David and Solomon ruled over an empire from the Euphrates to Eilath, ever existed. Archaeological evidence suggesting otherwise, such as the Mesha Stele, is often rejected as allegorical. In published books, one of the early advocates of the
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