cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/18644878

Video about the bronze age archeology and history.

From the description:

Lab’ayu of Shechem was one of the most dynamic and disruptive figures in the Amarna Letters and Late Bronze Age Canaan. Drawing directly from the texts, we reconstruct Lab’ayu’s political strategy, his alliances, his ties to the ʿApiru, and his bold attempts to control trade routes linking Canaan, Egypt, and Syria. We also explore how his actions shaped the geopolitical landscape of the Jezreel Valley and how his territorial ambitions formed a pattern echoed later in biblical history, including the narratives of Abimelech, Saul, and the early Israelite monarchy.

Using petrographic studies, territorial modeling, and close textual analysis, we contextualize Lab’ayu within the wider world of Egypt’s vassal network and highlight how a ruler from the highlands leveraged an unruly frontier for his own expansion. Lab’ayu’s story stands as a key moment in the political traditions of Canaan and its later biblical memory.