ABSTRACT
The scenario presented so far is very complex. Generally speaking, we have examined Israelite ethnicity going backward in time; we began the enterprise in the Iron Age II, when Israelite ethnicity is easier to establish and identify. We then analyzed the formation of those traits, and how they became meaningful in the context of the late Iron Age I and the interaction with the Philistine. This was followed by an examination of the evidence on Merenptah's Israel of the late thirteenth centrury BCE. I would like now to summarize Israel's ethnogenesis chronologically, from the thirteenth century onward.
