 One item to note however is that the text describes the garment that Achor stole as "Babylonish"; the time of the Israelite invasion is usually dated to the 15th or 12th centuries BC, but between 1595 BCE and 627 BCE Babylon was under foreign rule.For this reason, a few textual scholars believe that this part of the Achor narrative was written during the 7th century BC or later, but many Biblical scholars believe the judge Samuel may have put together this account from historical books from that time.It is not certain, however, that the whole Achor narrative dates from this time, as textual critics believe that the Achor narrative may have been spliced together from two earlier source texts; the words in the first part of Joshua 7