approximately 1400 BCE. The main group of exiles was deportated in 587 BCE,
although some were taken earlier. This gives a sojourn, at least in the remnant
region of Judah, of some 810 years. Not all the citizens of Judah were exiled, but
scholars differ as to how many did remain.
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The biblical period is actually incorrect, because the historical and archaeological
evidence shows that the Hebrew people did not arrive in the Canaanite hinterland
until just before 1200 BCE. This gives a sojourn, at least in the remnant region of
Judah, of some 620 years.
There is also a third answer. The majority of scholars now say that the Hebrew
people, far from leaving Egypt and invading Canaan by military might, were actually
native Canaanites who left the region of the coastal cities and migrated inland, to
settle peacefully in the sparsely populated area that was later to become known
as Israel, eventually spreading south into Judah. On this view, the Hebrew people
always lived in the ‘promised land’, creating their legend of conquest much later,
long after they had forgotten their real origins.
