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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University] SO THIS IS NOT HISTORY in the SIMPLE sense in the case of Jericho. It applies also for other places mentioned in the tradition of the conquest in the book of Joshua. MANY of the cities mentioned were not inhabited at all in the late Bronze Age. There was nothing there.
[Narrator] There is another inconsistency. Archaeologists' examination of all the different sites that have been excavated,
show that the process of destruction was spread over almost a century. In contrast, the Bible refers to a very short-lived operation.
While certain cities were indeed destroyed, they were not all destroyed at the same time.
What to do now?
We have to WIDEN our points of view and TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION of the Levant
during the same 13th century,
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