337. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Philistines, Israelites, & Rebuilding The Ruins (Ep 6)

Welcome back to Empire. I'm William De Rymple, but I'm afraid there is no Anita this week as she is got her back trouble back again and she can't sit down in front of a microphone, poor woman. But we have the great compensation of the company of Professor Eric Klein, who's been taking us through his extraordinary trilogy of books on the Bronze Age collapse. We've we've followed him through the collapse, through the aftermath, and we're now going to talk in this final episode of our series about the recovery, the very different world that emerges after the collapse.

Particularly we're going to look at the eastern Mediterranean, what happens in Israel-Palestine, what happens in uh Lebanon, uh, Phoenicia, uh the early Israelite kingdoms, and the Philistines. Eric, welcome back and thank you for joining us. Thank you. It's a real pleasure to explore this period with you and I'm I'm glad that we can actually end all of this with how people rebuilt after the catastrophe.

So there there is late at the end of the tunnel, if you will. And it is a very different world. It feels completely different, with, with, with different names and uh and a very different looking world to to to the world we had uh when we opened with this. Yeah, it's a new world order. It's fundamentally a very different world from what had existed before the collapse, what had existed in the late Bronze Age.

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