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  • From: "Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Dating the Pentateuch- Canaan's Conquest Anomalies
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 01:23:37 -0500


Well, it's not so long ago that people on this list were arguing that
there was almost no evidence for a 13th century Conquest and so that
must have been a later invention.

David Rohl (yes, him again! "A Test of Time" pp.306-308) has repeated
the view of John Bimson (in "Redating the Exodus and Conquest") that
the Conquest should be dated to the Middle Bronze Age, when according
to archaeology Jericho, Debir, Lachish, Hebron, Bethel, Gibeon, Arad
and Hazor were all destroyed. That would be mid 16th century (? - Rohl
does not give Bimson's dates) on the orthodox chronology (so fitting
Walter's Hyksos expulsion theory) and mid 15th century on Rohl's
chronology.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Dating the Pentateuch- Canaan's Conquest Anomalies
Author: <yonsaf AT beitberl.beitberl.ac.il> at Internet
Date: 24/01/2000 21:26


I don't know how you all got into the 15th century; all the
archeological evidence for the Israelite Settlement dates from the late
13th century and later.
Are you saying that Joshua's "Conquest" left no trace?
Sincerely,
--
Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl College
44905 Beit Berl Post Office
Israel



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