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| According to the ], Joshua divided the newly conquered land of ] into parcels, and assigned them to the ] by ]. The Book of Joshua describes the parcels by giving landmarks along the borders, or in some cases by listing the included cities. | |||
| A general principle, articulated by the archaeologist ], is that each town had a surrounding territory of villages and land that were dependent on it, and the tribal borders ran along the borders of these territories, rather than through the towns themselves. It may be possible to determine the borders of town territories by looking at ]s. | |||
| The division of Canaan into tribal territories is set at the time of Joshua's conquest. But by the Bible's account, and archaeologically as well, the Israelites did not conquer the plains at that time; thus, those borders that run through the plains are nominal; they partition land that Israel did not possess. | |||
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| ==Books and maps== | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Abu-Sitta, Salman H. | title=Atlas of Palestine, 1948 | publisher= | year=2004}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Aharoni, Yohanan | title=The Land of the Bible; A Historical Geography | publisher=The Westminster Press | year=1979 | isbn=0-664-24266-9}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Campbell, E., Jr. | title=Shechem II | publisher=ASOR | year=1991 | isbn=0-89757-062-6}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Dever, William G. | title=Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? | publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans | year=2003 | isbn=0-8028-0975-8}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Dorsey, David A. | title=The Roads and Highways of Ancient Israel | publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press | year=1991 | isbn=0-8018-3898-3}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Finkelstein, I. and Z. Lederman (eds.)| title=Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Samaria Survey | publisher=Tel Aviv University Institute of Archaeology | year=1997 | isbn=965-440-007-3}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=May, Herbert G. | title=Oxford Bible Atlas | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1974 | isbn=0-19-211556-1}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Kallai, Zecharia | title=Historical Geography of the Bible; The Tribal Territories of Israel | publisher=The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University | year=1986 | isbn=965-223-631-4}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Miller, Robert D., II, | title=Chieftains Of The Highland Clans: A History Of Israel In The Twelfth And Eleventh Centuries B.C. | publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans | year=2005 | isbn=0-8028-0988-X}} | |||
| *{{cite book | author=Na'aman, Nadav | title=Borders and Districts in Biblical Historiography | publisher=Simor, Ltd. | year=1986 | isbn=965-242-005-0}} | |||
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