Note: this topic is from 7/31/2002.One of *those* topics. Thanks Scythian.
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Posted on 07/31/2002 7:35:06 PM PDT by Scythian
Note: this topic is from 7/31/2002.One of *those* topics. Thanks Scythian.
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Note: this topic is from 7/31/2002. Thanks again Scythian.
Part 3 of our video series highlighting segments of "The David Rohl Lectures" focusses on the Conquest step of the biblical story. The lack of evidence for a conquest or even activity at major cities mentioned in the Bible, was a key factor in the development of skepticism in mainstream academia regarding this era of biblical history. Here, once again, David Rohl points to evidence matching the Bible’s account but unrecognized by most scholars because it lies in a period earlier than expected. | Could this be the Standing Stone of Joshua?: The David Rohl Lectures - Part 3 | PatternsOfEvidence | Published on Apr 7, 2016
Did Joshua Destroy Canaanite Hatzor?Hatzor is the largest archaeological tel in Israel. The discovery of several cuneiform tablets at the 800-dunam (200-acre) site over the years points to the likelihood that Hatzor will produce the first ancient archive, other than the Dead Sea Scrolls, ever to be found in the country... Ben-Tor... hoped there might be two archives -- one in each of the two palaces identified on the acropolis atop the tel. The late Prof. Yigael Yadin had been the first to identify a palace during his landmark dig at Hatzor in the 1950s, dating it to the 18th century BC or Middle Bronze (MB) period. That fitted perfectly with the date of the royal archive in Mari, Syria, in which cuneiform messages relating to MB Hatzor were found - the first hint of a possible archive at Hatzor. However, when Ben-Tor began his excavations in 1990 he came upon a palace near Yadin's which he dated, by means of its ceramics, to a few hundred years later -- that is, to the last half of the second millennium or Late Bronze (LB) period. The generally accepted dating of the biblical destruction of Hatzor by Joshua roughly coincides with the date of this LB palace's destruction, the 14th or 13th centuries BCE. This summer, as he probed the area of the palaces, Ben-Tor began to have an uneasy feeling that Yadin, his former teacher, had made a wrong dating and that there was in fact only one palace -- his own LB structure... Even if he is a palace short, however, the one that Ben-Tor is left with is proving enormous... The basalt stones had been distorted by a terrible fire which likewise echoes the biblical description of Joshua's destruction. It was clear for anyone to see that the basalt stones had been fractured by a hot fire. Geologists report that the fire had to be over 1200 degrees to cause this kind of damage to basalt.
by Clarence H. Wagner, Jr.
September 1997
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Note: this topic is from 7/31/2002. But there hasn't been a GGG update since 2/11/2010, over nine years ago. Thanks again Scythian, wherever you are.
I have never seen any evidence that there were hundreds of thousands if Israelites in Egypt. The Exodus was made by a few thousand at best. The Israelite were no doubt in Egypt as the Bible records but their presence was so trivial that the Egyptian writers failed to notice.
That’s a good one. Gotta read that when I got a bit of time. Thanks Civ
You don't know what you're talking about.
See if you can find it in a library, last I checked it was out of print, and used copies were priced quite high. The video "Patterns of Evidence" is probably still available.
I bought the “Patterns of Evidence” DVD when it first came out, in 2015.
I've got it here, uh, somewhere, also saw it premiere in iMax. That screen has ruined me for regular theaters.
This information is so interesting in verifying some of the Biblical stories and history. I’ve never been able to understand why some people said it was all fables and myths. That is a heck of a lot of fables and myths to be written down on expensive materials like papyrus or clay tablets.
Readjusting a timeline of one history to prove out another is a major victory in proving both.
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