WI: Ancient Israel Kingdom kept united

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My definition of ASB is relying on magic, aliens, or anything actually beyond the capacities of a polity, person or technology in alternate history.
Solomon (and David) are supposed to be able to create a Hebrew-Wank state thanks to divine help, both against their ennemies and because of God adding points of Wisdom on Solomon's charachter sheet.
So, i think it would be on your definition of ASB?

You haven't answered my question. By your definition any timeline is ASB that relies on a figure we think may have been mythological or can't be proven to have existed. For anyone writing timelines pre-Classical era, that counts for maybe three quarters of the named characters of history.

Is any timeline that relies on a figure who may not have existed ASB?
Yes and No.

Yes if the premise is "Let's use this figure as described in [random mythological book] (by mythological i mean religious or a founding myth)"

No if the premise is "Okay, i know this character is probably didn't like that, but i want to use it in a TL that rely on what it could have been in reality rather than in later reports".

EDIT : by exemple, instead of a bilbical Solomon that is clearly ASB, we could have a Solomon as a hebrew-canaanite chief of the small town of Jerusalem and the surrounding tribe. He would have been at the corner of egyptian, phenician and mesopotamian influences, and probably tributary from some other country.
 
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