On this map are the territories which concern us, Dan Naphtali, Gad, and above all, Asher.
The map is already telling us that certain stories are not true, that Ten Tribes did not disappear into Assyrua, The territories of Simeon and Reuben are squarely in the South and Reuben would have been engulfed by Moab and Ammon which did become part of Judea eventually The land of Asher lies on the Sea and is mingled with Phoenicia which it may have not been part of, Of course, Asherah is called Asherah of the sea. Asherah and his brother Naphtali from Bilhah were said to be sea farers, much like the Phoenicians. We see Asher and Naphtali as the north western points, Gad as the desert approaching south western and Dan is the sea bordering southeastern. Ephraim and Menassah, that is, Joseph, is guarded, sandwiched within,
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