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The history of the migration patterns of the Israelites are that the Jews were kicked out of the promised land which is the city of Jerusalem. The Jews had to move to Europe, Africa, Egypt, and many other places.

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A:It is generally accepted that migration played a crucial role in the formation of the Israelite nation, but the truth is more surprising than imagined. More than 90 per cent of scholars are reported to believe there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in The Bible. The migrations of Abraham, Joseph and Moses did not occur.

Lawrence E. Stager (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Forging an Identity: The Emergence of Ancient Israel) says that to make a persuasive archaeological case for the mass migration of peoples from one homeland to another, the implanted culture must be distinguishable from the indigenous cultures in the new zones of settlement. If the intrusive group launches an invasion (as proponents of the Israelite 'conquest' postulate), then there should be synchronous discontinuities, such as destruction layers, separating the previous 'Canaanite' cultures from the newly established 'Israelite' cultures in the zone of contention. Of the thirty-one cities said to be taken by Joshua and the Israelites, twenty have been plausibly identified with excavation sites. Of these, only Bethel and Hazor meet these criteria, and it is even debated whether the destruction of Hazor XIII was as late as that of Late Bronze Age Bethel. This is consistent with the consensus that there was no biblical Exodus from Egypt. We must look for a different migration, and the one that scholars now accept is an internal migration.

Such recent writers as Lemche, Thompson, Coote and Whitelam agree that the lsraelite culture emerged peacefully within the land as an inevitable consequence of the economic and social decline of late bronze age Canaan coinciding with the development of new agricultural techniques which enabled increasing numbers to withdraw from the city states, located principally along the coast and in the valleys, and to start settling in the hitherto sparsely populated hill country of Judah and Samaria. Centuries later, after they had forgotten their real origins, the Israelites created legends of the Patriarchs, privation in Egypt and the glorious conquest of the Canaanites.

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