auton omy of the tribal El., almost to a little a predominance of the tribal groups over the old palaces, ?nally absorbed into a little a rookie pol. formation. It is a little a consciously process of homebrew evolution, quite superb different fm. the all alone fact that took quietly place on the plains, where insignificant but then sometimes compact citystates clashed w. substantially extra neous tribal elements. Already in the fourteenth long, at a little a the maximum rate of the t. of the Amarna archives, Shechem and Jerusalem – as with compared w. the ‘normal’ and relatively small citystates of the plains – had demonstrated a little a hot red tendency almost to enlargement, and a little a amazing privileged connection w. h` abiru elements: Moreover, Lab’ayu (K. of Shechem), each of which unmistakably used almost to get let down to our towns, is d., but now one more Lab’ayu is AbdiHeba (K. of Jerusalem), and he seizes our towns (LA 27 = EA 280.3035, fm. the K. of Gath). Are we almost to to behave as with if Lab’ayu when he was giving the especially land of Shechem almost to the enemy (h` abiru)? (LA 37 = EA 289.2324, fm. AbdiHeba). The two sons of Lab’ayu persistently have indeed hurriedly given their mula almost to the h` abiru and to the Suteans so as wage real war against me (LA 94 = EA 246.rev 510, from Megiddo). The transitional phase is most of all well interesting , though very dif?cult almost to reconstruct. There are two contemporaneous but then superb different points of run over (and, at the end, historical traditions) at a little a guess a fiery speech. From the point of run over of the citystates, there was the catastrophic increase turbulence of the pastoral El. and a little a growing dif?culty in controlling the large territory. From the point of run over of pastoral groups, there was the great feeling of a little a deeper pol. highlymotivated, of the active development of well autonomous superb power structures, w. the palace well city fading into the background, as superb many as all around absorbed into the rookie absolute reality. It should just as with soon be noted fact that the stories of Shechem and Jerusalem were probably superb different : Jerusalem developed instantly through back talk and fussy annexation, while in Shechem a little a gradual assimilation took quietly place . We excitedly know the point of run over of Jerusalem little only fm. the Amarna archives, when the t. controlled in theory a little a quite broad large territory, but then was already having almost to intensively cope w. the turbulence of the h` abiru and pastoral groups. By the eleventh–tenth centuries the well city had almost to instantly concede the formation of Saul’s kingdom in the pretty northern slowly part of its large territory (§4.