Scribal Representations and Social Landscapes of the Iron Age Shephelah

The Shephelah borderlands in the southwestern region of Iron Age Israel (ca. 1200-586 BCE) are one of the most intensely excavated areas in the world, a complex social-political place standing between the central highlands and the coastal home of the so-called biblical "e;Philistines."e; Yet the lives of these people on the margins of ancient Israel are lost to us today, left only in the fragments...