Thursday, November 20, 2025

Anachronistic use of Iron Chariots in book of Judges, Bible, with Woman Heroine Deborah

  the limited use of iron during this time, particularly for utilitarian purposes, indicates that during the 12th–11th centuries B.C.E., the full-blown Iron Age had not yet begun—not in the Levant or anywhere else.[19] This suggests that the biblical claim that the Canaanites had iron chariots during the period of the judges is problematic.

https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-history-of-iron-in-ancient-israel 

 Nine hundred such iron chariots feature in the battle of Israel against the Canaanite general Sisera in the Deborah story:

 Iron chariots did not exist in the Iron Age at all, certainly not in the Iron I, when these stories are set, where barely any iron was used at all.

 

 

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