The book looks back 4000 years.

P. 24: The "Israelites... appeared in Assyrian inscriptions... in the 9th - 8th centuries BC . For Maimonides, however , the ancient ' Israelites ' were not a race or an ethnicity – but a community of ..."

@jaycee

Same here, I've had to make a little list...

Interesting tidbit here:

1200-1001 BCE: "During the Iron Age I period (12th-11th C BCE), the Israelite religion branched out from the Canaanite religion & formed Yahwism."

Judaism evolved later.

Ref en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin…

overview of the early history of Judaism

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