ABSTRACT
A thorough historical interpretation of Palestine during the Iron Age focussing, rather than on biblical episodes, events and names, on the demographic and economic features of the landscape and its transformation during the first half of the first millennium BCE. This alternative historical reconstruction is based on F. Braudel’s concept of la longue durée and shows the potentiality of this perspective for writing critical histories of ancient Palestine, in contrast to usual and traditional histories of ancient Israel.
