Was King David a nomad ruler?

[Duncan Head]

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/was-king-david-a-nomad-new-theory-sparks-storm-in-archaeology-1.10035052

[Anton]

Thanks for that one Duncan

It's a cut above most of news articles we usually see.

I'd assume that nomad is standing in for people who followed the grazing in a regular cycle according to the season.  I'd be inclined to think the iconoclast might be onto something.  One to watch maybe.

[DBS]

Of course, Peter James and David Rohl would suggest that the architectural remains are there, it is just that the archaeologists are looking in the wrong centuries...

I am not wholly convinced by the new chronology arguments, certainly not Rohl's version, but I am sympathetic to the original arguments by James et al that the current mainstream assumptions are potentially deeply flawed.  I think their analysis of the problem is good, not necessarily the alternatives elaborated by Rohl.