The Solomonic Districts and the Nimshide Dynasty Administrative System in the Southern Levant

Scholars once eagerly claimed that 1 Kgs 4:7–19 contains historical information and represents a reliable source of on David Solomon’s administrative system. However, with the idea great United Monarchy becoming controversial since 1990s, some pivotal studies have proposed new dates for this list’s composition, ranging from 10th, mid-ninth, early eighth, mid-seventh centuries BCE to even post-exilic period. This article begins premise political reality specific time period, which could leave traceable factual evidence. Synthesizing topographical-textual, archaeological, observations elucidate its likely background results in an inference suggesting eighth century composition during reigns Joash Jeroboam II.