#1 Evidence for Israel’s Conquest of the Promised Land…other than the Bible!
The top extra-biblical evidence most often cited in this apologetics framing is the Merneptah Stele (c. 1208–1209 BC), an Egyptian victory monument that contains the oldest known non-biblical reference to Israel as a people in Canaan (“Israel is laid waste, having no seed”). It’s treated as proof that Israel was already an established entity in …
