Middle Bronze I nomads came up from the south hence they could not have been Abraham’s family
by Damien F. Mackey “ On the basis of my research, I would suggest that they were a people who migrated slowly, from the south or southwest, into the Central Negev of Palestine ”. Dr. Rudolph Cohen What Dr. Rudolph Cohen wrote here, in his article: Home > Magazines > BAR > July/August 1983 The Mysterious MBI People Does the Exodus tradition in the Bible preserve the memory of their entry into Canaan? is an improvement, both geographically and archaeologically, on the views of the American rabbi-archaeologist, Nelson Glueck - who had believed that the nomadic Middle Bronze I (MBI) people belonged to the age of the patriarch Abraham - and of those who have identified them as the family of Abraham. Their progression into the Negev from the S or SW is geographically opposite to that of the Abraham-ites, who had entered the land of Canaan from the north, coming from Haran (fro...