Here are some suggestions for digging deeper.
David M. Howard, Jr., and Michael Grisanti, eds., Giving the Sense. Understanding and Using Old Testament Historical Texts. Leicester: Apollo, 2003.
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., A History of Israel: From the Bronze Age to the Jewish Wars. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1994.
V. Philip Long, The Art of Biblical History. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.
V. Philip Long, David W. Baker, and Gordon J. Wenham, eds., Windows into Old Testament History: Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis of "Biblical Israel." Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
Eugene H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.
Iain Provan, V. Philip Long, and Tremper Longman III, A Biblical History of Israel. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003. Extremely well-argued and written work, especially if you want to keep abrest of scholarship on the history of ancient Israel.
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