 Finally, Aharon Kempinski and Donald B. Redford have proposed that Sheshi is the historical figure who gave rise to the Biblical Sheshai, one of the Anakim living in Hebron at the time of the conquest of Canaan by the Hebrews according to .David Rohl goes even further and explicitly equates Sheshi with Sheshai.Three competing hypotheses have been proposed regarding the dynasty to which Sheshi belonged.