Outhouse, this last comment from the "wikipedia" "editors" is the reason your comments are to be "debated" . Notice: """"The villages were more numerous and larger in the north, and probably shared the highlands with
pastoral nomads who left no remains.""""
You aren't speaking of the history of the Bible, but the theories put together by recent "scholars"/ "editors" who seek to validate their own suppositions/probabilities with their own myths. The History of the earth is as written and validated by the one who made it----"I AM the Lord thy GOD."
That same GOD left it up to each one to choose to -----believe or disbelieve.
Those opinions(by men) given in your sites are no better than the
erroneous lies which were uttered by the serpent/Satan in the Garden.
Are you implying that because a group of people were nomads and kept moving from site to site that they were NOT a CULTURE and therefore, NO HISTORICITY??? That is the "nonsense" of so-called "scholars"/scientist/etc..
In 1Tim.6:20, he was given some wise admonition. "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:"
Im sorry my friend that you dont want to follow modern history over ancient myths.
the people that made up Israeli's were for the most part Canaanites, then Mesopotamians and only a few semetic speaking Egyptians that were never a enslaved race.
here is another source
Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The
Israelites (or
children of Israel) were the "
chosen people" of the god
Yahweh, according to the
Hebrew bible. According to their religious scriptures they were a
Hebrew-speaking people of the
Ancient Near East who inhabited the Land of
Canaan (the modern day Israel, western Jordan, southern Lebanon and Palestinian Territories) during the
monarchic period (11th to 7th centuries BCE).
This states they only go back to the 11th century BC
History of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Early Israelites (1200–950 BCE)
The Merneptah Stele (JE 31408), the earliest record of the name "Israel" (
Cairo Museum)
See also:
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy),
Israelites, and
Hebrews
The first record of the name Israel (as
ysrỉꜣr) occurs in the
Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh
Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, "Israel is laid waste and his seed is not."
[1] William Dever sees this "Israel" in the central highlands as a cultural and probably political entity, but an ethnic group rather than an organized state.
[2]
Ancestors of the Israelites may have included
Semites who occupied
Canaan and the
Sea Peoples.
[3] McNutt says, "It is probably safe to assume that sometime during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as 'Israelite'", differentiating itself from the Canaanites through such markers as the prohibition of intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.
[4]
Villages had populations of up to 300 or 400,
[5][6] which lived by farming and herding and were largely self-sufficient;
[7] economic interchange was prevalent.
[8] Writing was known and available for recording, even in small sites.
[9] The archaeological evidence indicates a society of village-like centres, but with more limited resources and a small population
this shows no israelis existed prior to 1200 BC
the same deity Yawheh worshipped by israeli's was worshipped by Canaanites and originated in Edom and was also worshipped by the Shasu tribe, ALL long before Israeli's existed. 
